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Arista Networks

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Good Culture, Good Technology, Awesome People, But management needs to wake up regarding compensation now - Software Engineer Arista Networks Employee Review

4.0
Sep 5, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Those of you who worked at traditional networking companies will be amazed at the tools, technologies and development environment that we have. We don't connect two switches the traditional way. We have got python and our test infrastructure to do that. Testing your new feature the traditional way is much harder than testing it via the infra we have. Moreover, you would spend most of the time designing the feature. The donkey work you did for robust unit testing is no longer needed. It has been streamlined and the testing efforts you put in will be leveraged whenever someone changes the relevant code. There are hardly any bugs - bugs of the kind you would have seen in your previous n jobs at networking companies. Coming to people:, well, this is the highest concentration of smartest people I have ever seen. You don't need to stretch your self to explain a complicated item in the code that you are looking at very closely. people just get it. One mail, one diagram on board and you are there. Stocks have a great potential. Yes, even if you are joining today, and with average valuation for the company, you will make reasonable amount

Cons

Compensation, See the advice to management section.

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5.0
Jun 18, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Extremely talented engineering team - Extremely challenging and rewarding projects - Very good total compensation and stock performance - Very little politics, focus is on engineering and delivering products

Cons

- Limited corporate/team events, team 'swag' etc.

3.0
Mar 30, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Top-tier technology. brilliant engineers. Incredible customer support TAC. The hyperscalers are consuming Arista tech at an alarming rate, and that serves as a great testimonial to the integrity of the technology, but the GTM strategy for Campus expansion is nonexistent.

Cons

Campus/Enterprise & Commercial sales regions are on an island of their own. Zero business development teams, zero marketing, zero branding, zero latest generation tools to prospect, research, and extract data to target your campaigns. If you don't have existing relationships in your market, then you're on your own to prospect, generate interest, connect with decision makers, identify "at bat opportunities" and close new business. The Hyperscaler use-case examples aren't enough to win real enterprise business from Cisco and HPE.

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