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Hard place for beginners - Software Engineer Arista Networks Employee Review

3.0
6 Feb 2026
Recommend
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Pros

- Less micromanagement - Stock prices are rising - Good work culture

Cons

- Engineers always have lots of tasks assigned to them. Although there is no hard deadline, manager will expect progress on all tasks regularly - Lots of expectations from engineers. Documentation, designing, getting it reviewed, implementing, testing everything is to be done by a Software Engineer - Regular meetings at night with US team - The review system is not transparent. People always trying to jump into others' discussions to get more peer reviews - Tech stack is mostly proprietary. Very difficult to switch for beginners if they don't have experience in domains other than networking - The codebase is a complete mess and nightmare. No proper naming given to packages and classes. Very hard to read and get an idea about what a particular flow is doing - Documentation is unbelievably poor. You can almost never learn anything on your own. Always have to reach out to experienced folks to get a basic idea of everything.

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5.0
3 June 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Hands off management Remote work Lot of autonomy Quality EOS Great AI story I keep to myself and get my work done. They'll work you as hard as you let them, so it's important to set boundaries and expectations early on.

Cons

Office politics comes with any organization Constantly have AI shoved in my face

3.0
30 Mar 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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