Pros: Smart people. Flexibility. No micromanagement. Perks.

Cons: Complex and brittle infrastructure. Lax coding standards. Overly clever engineers. Entrenched lifers with extensive tribal knowledge.

Pros: Most people in all offices are generally nice. Quality of work/colleagues depends on what team you're on. Interesting if someone is super into networking, but not great in terms of general software engineering. WLB is mostly good; managers are quite flexible as long as work gets done. The company seems to be doing acquisitions all the time; the stock price is doing okay. There's a certain sense of stability.

Cons: - Pay is subpar. A large chunk of the people who tend to stay are pre-IPO or folks who have been with the company for a long time. - Tech is ugly, dated, and boring; a lot of work is RFC driven. - Tech-related thoughts/opinions are also dated and driven by the Unix generation of developers who grew up inside a terminal. - Horrible docs. This makes ramp-up unnecessarily difficult, and the company does not put any professional effort into improving this. - General company culture/work is more suited for older folks, particularly those who have been in the networking industry for a while. - Performance evaluation schemes are nice in theory but horrible in practice. Highly skewed towards tenured employees and others' perception of one's "impact." - Niche domain, and tech is tightly coupled to the domain. Remember that Arista is a networking company before a software company, no matter what. - People seem to leave constantly.

Pros: Overall, a very nice environment geared towards technology and engineering. Friendly workplace.

Cons: Management is frugal in spending on basic stuff like RRSP contributions, healthcare, and MSP. There is no policy for promotions or pay raises.