Arista Networks

Decent work-life balance. Non-toxic company culture.

Not enough compensation to have a life or a future in Silicon Valley! You will never afford a house that you can call home within a reasonable commute distance to work; forget about it!

They're wasting billions building a new HQ so they can enforce a full RTO instead of paying employees decent wages.

ZERO benefits working at Arista over any other company in the SV area. They don't even have a company cafeteria to avoid paying for a $20 lunch. There goes $2k of your already meager salary down the drain!

On paper, we have "Unlimited PTO," but your coworkers and managers make it very clear not to take more than 4 weeks, or there will be consequences in your next performance review.

Purposefully opaque SWE levels so that the company can underpay everyone! The only purpose of having your coworkers review you is so that this company can advertise this as a benefit to fool you into working for a very low compensation level, while the execs run out the back with all the money!

Speaking of execs, don't be fooled by Kenneth Duda's high-and-mighty speeches about good software. Remember that you will be paid pennies to write that good software for him while he sits in his giant study in his mansion and preaches about it to you on a regular basis.

There is no such thing as company pride here. All of the company events are cheap, and nobody even shows up to them.

There are two types of employees at Arista:

• The recent ones stuck here like me.
• The decade-long employees getting at least 20x my salary thanks to stock appreciation since they joined.

The only reason anyone from the last few years is here is because they couldn't get into Company X, Y, or Z that they actually wanted to get into.

I have yet to meet anyone young at this company that is "proud" to work here or genuinely wanted to work here.

Overall, I would only work here as a last resort to keep from starving on the streets. Always spend the extra time you have from working less than 8 hours on finding a better company because you will not have enough money to do any interesting hobby to make your life fulfilling.

Most management has been here for a decade, so they'll continue to:

• See no evil,
• Hear no evil,
• Speak no evil

while making $1 million+ a year on your sweat and labor.

Get out of this company ASAP to avoid wasting your life and working until you collapse into your grave.