Pros
Small company, so RSU's have potential if you're lucky
Cons
Management is terrible, middle management doesn't understand how to assign people into teams so you become a headless chicken and work for different teams each month. This prevents you to master any particular project and get lower rating than expected. They put people initially to a ranking higher than their current level so even on the first day you're put in a position to say that "we're paying you more than you should be making" Tech stack is terrible, everything used is written inside and you can't transfer any of your knowledge, they tell you they're using C++ but in reality it's a language written inside with little to no documentation. You have to ask everything to other people. They use their own bug management tool, their own CI/CD tools etc. You have to learn everything from the beginning and your prior knowledge is mostly useless. This also causes you to become Arista specific employee since these knowledge doesn't worth anything outside the Arista. Areview is a joke. This is a reviewing system similar to 360 but its far, far worse. So how it works is that you put people you choose into an ordered list. The top one is supposed to be the person with the highest contributor to the company's success while at the bottom the person with the lowest contribution. Everyone makes their own list and these lists will be merged to create a total ranking of employees. If you're lower than your expected place, too bad, you'll probably get fired. Consider this, a new team member joined the team and they're pretty good for a beginner and doing some good work. Now, the time for areview comes and there's no way to put a positive feedback for him because even though he is better for a starter, you can't rank them higher than other people because by definition the order should be the "contribution of the company's success" so if you don't put anything for him it's better. Because adding him at the end means he's just far worse from bunch of people. It's just a stupid system. People are getting fired like they're nothing and it's creating a demoralizing and stressful work environment. I've witnessed a lot of people being fired and some of them without even explanation. They just lock you out of office one day. Management doesn't know how to rank or mentor people let alone placing them into a team. There's no team structure, you don't belong into a team, you're just someone inside the Arista. Working remotely with a team in US from Europe is already challenging and you don't really get much chance to be in a meeting to get to know people and you should expect them to remember you and write a good review when the time comes. All I can say, I've worked at Arista as a full time employee for 4 years and most of the time I was under a lot of stress, felt like a failure and was unhappy. I feel alive again after I left the company.