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Create great software in a rapidly growing market - Anonymous employee Arista Networks Employee Review

5.0
Mar 5, 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Strong engineering culture --- belief in doing it right, investing in the right tools, hiring the brightest people, and then getting out of their way. As a software engineer, you have a great deal of freedom and flexibility to work in different areas on different teams. There's no micromanaging or other BS. In the rare cases where the company asks for extra hours, there's a clear business reason. Interesting product innovation --- Arista is bringing a modern software approach to the old business of data center networking, meaning Linux, open source, open APIs, shaking up the space. Real market success for such a young company --- Arista's products are deployed at scale in the largest web-2.0 companies, financial services, telecom carriers, high-performance computing installations, etc. Lots of upside potential in the stock. Experienced management team --- industry veterans who really know the space. Cafeteria is very good (but not free, alas).

Cons

Lacks some of the hipness of "social media" or "mobile e-commerce" or "web 2.0" etc. At the end of the day, it's data center networking.

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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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