Arista Networks

Talented people to work with. A helpful environment.

Pune/WiFi people are not valued much.

Following a comparison with the fellow Bangalore team (leave aside overseas teams).

Pune/WiFi: 150 people including Dev (product, automation, devops, tools), Test, Support, PLM. Bangalore/Switch: 200 people out of 1000 worldwide engineers. Other roles are outside these 1000 employees.

Pune/WiFi: Complete responsibility of the WiFi products. Bangalore/Switch: Going with the above numbers, 1/5 of the total Switch products responsibility and hence approx 1/5 of meaningful work.

Pune/WiFi: WiFi tech/protocol literally changes every 2 years. Extra work, new set of platforms every two years (average three platforms per year), no other option but to compete with a highly evolving market. Bangalore/Switch: No major breakthrough since optic fibre, same protocol for a decade. New platforms can be slower as the market is not highly evolving.

Pune/WiFi: No one would say there is good work-life balance. Daily hours of work. Not much of a leisure choice because soon all are thrown into the burning heat of the market. Bangalore/Switch: Good work-life balance (all reviews about good work-life balance at Arista India are from Bangalore people only). Obviously, as they are bearing only 1/5 of total workload. The rest 4/5 they do is just leisure. You may relate reviews about people getting to get a choice of work they can do and time they get to prove themselves.

Pune/WiFi: 10 holidays a year. Bangalore/Switch: 10, +1 for Kannada Rajyotsav.

Pune/WiFi: Gift perks like t-shirts. Bangalore/Switch: T-shirts + annual gift perks like Echo Dots, smart watches.

Pune/WiFi: If Pune gets 100 as salary. Bangalore/Switch: Bangalore gets a minimum of 120 as salary, just because this is the usual salary gap between Pune & Bangalore.

I understand that Bangalore people need 1 lakh extra annually for the more rent they pay. But all other costs are the same in Pune & Bangalore. In fact, Maharashtra has more/highest state taxes in India.

Simply going by the poor work-life balance and amount of work-responsibility, the Pune people have more than the Bangalore people. Pune people should get 5 times the pay of Bangalore people (minus 1 lakh, I concede). But they get only 80% of Bangalore people's pay - for the same level/role and comparatively worse work/life balance.

Really unfair.

The Pune/WiFi team needs to be valued much more than they are valued now.