Pros: - Great people who are passionate about the product. - Fast-paced, and you feel like you are constantly contributing to the product.

Cons: Engineers who joined in 2012 or before (henceforth referred to as loyal employees) are massively underpaid. Loyals are sticking with the company in a hope that underwater stock options might breathe new life soon. The company is taking advantage of this mindset and not paying them enough. A review: The appraisal process is not transparent in rankings to the employee. What is the point of the appraisal if an employee does not know his rank, which determines the entire compensation? There is no clear motivation for an employee to perform better than he is already doing because he is unaware of his current ranking and the bonus/hike he can expect for higher ranks. Even though company management brags about how compensation and review go hand in hand, the managers/directors' "pets" (note: these are not the same loyal employees) get paid more because managers/directors tamper with review rankings to make sure they get paid more. Peer bonus (or pea nuts) is the biggest joke! Most often a not deserving candidate gets the peer bonus. People who add bugs in code and quickly fix them, when the customer gets impacted, qualify for peer bonus. While someone who never added any bug and always did a quality job has a lesser chance of getting the same because he just did what was expected from an Arista Employee. The management has started hiring managers directly from other companies (at least in some offices. Thankfully not in HQ). It has stopped recognizing internal talent (including loyals) and promoting them. There is no career path or growth for an Engineer.

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: No deadlines. People have an emphasis on doing code right and fixing customer problems first before pushing out their own new products. They actually do focus on fixing bugs, which is a good thing in the long run.

Cons: High learning curve, lots of stuff to learn, weird dependencies, and small mistakes could easily cost more time. Tools are slow, which could hamper development, but people know and are trying to speed things up for us.