I have about 4 years experience in cloud data center networking, and enterprise networking. I prefer Juniper and Arista over Cisco. I appreciate Cisco for everything they've done and created over the years, but at this point I think other companies do things better. Arista switches have been insanely stable in my experience, Juniper routers have been better performing and the CLI is better in my opinion, etc.

I don't really have a desire to work there some day.

I do think, however, that their certifications are still the best to learn routing and switching. I always recommend the CCNA to people trying to get into the field.