Best company - Director Arista Networks Employee Review

Having worked here for a while now, I can wholeheartedly say that Arista is one of the best companies to work for if you are not an engineer. If you are a Manager, Director, CTO or MD (hence forth referred as MDC) this is the place to be. Here are the things I see as being refreshingly different at Arista: 1. Culture of mentoring: As an MDC, you need to ensure that another engineer mentors the new employee. 2. Culture of quality: Quality trumps everything else. Make sure your engineers understand that and MDC's can relax 3. Culture of tooling and automation: Make sure engineers automate testing of the code they write so that they are not indispensable in the organization. 4. Culture of peer reviews: Reviews are giving by peers and as an MDC you can just blame the peers during appraisal for bad ratings, comments and no hike. Encourage engineers to work hard and MDC's job is done. Multiple superstar engineers will be wondering why he is not better than the other superstar engineer. As an MDC you get the hike while superstar engineers will star gazing at the automated code to determine hike/rating. 5. Culture of 9 to 5 :): For all awesome engineers at arista has hired. As an MDC you get to relax - no slogging, no working during weekdays, only distribute the work 6. Culture of constant improvement: Every review cycle make sure engineer constantly tries to improve while the ranking and rating are unchanged or dimish 7. Culture of collective responsibility: Even when things get screwed up. As an MDC, you can always encourage engineers to collectively work towards fixing the problem without blaming yourself 8. Culture of encouraging engineers to write good glassdoor reviews I am really proud to be part of this culture. Hope this helps others.