Come on...the little nerd has to be toast?
I heard no layoffs
No layoffs in Engineering.
It started happening
I am from security team based in sunnyvale and today some folks were let go. I also heard about support/TAC folks are affected
IBM anouces a $325 million agreement with Juniper
Today, IBM Services (NYSE: IBM) announced a $325 million agreement with Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR) in which IBM will assist the network technology giant in managing its existing infrastructure, applications and IT services to help reduce costs and... — read more
Layoffs today?
Why are people mentioning layoffs today in other threads? Have I missed something?
Who Got Laid Off This Week?....
I read on another forum that the VP of Professional Services got laid off.
Invoke the Motion of no-confidence - RR
I would like to initiate a motion of no-confidence for RR as JNPRs CEO. He is no longer deemed fit to hold the important position of CEO of Juniper. He has demonstrated that he is inadequate and not an effective leader and he is way in over his head... — read more
suggestion to juniper
Contrail got acquired in 2012 and didn't nothing to the success of Juniper. Juniper really paid greay salary and stock compensation to contrail employees. All the original employees left realizing that they didn't do any thing great. Why can't... — read more
Legend of the Juniper Monitor
How do we know the Juniper Monitor even exists? Is the Juniper Monitor real or legend?
Nice article in LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/good-managers-magnets-talent-bad-repellents-oleg-vishnepolsky/ All 11 points in this article which correspond to bad managers are exactly how Juniper managers are... — read more
The Real Fundimenta Problems with Juniper
The basic problems with juniper are as follows; 1) greed 2) c level are clueless 3) RR hires the very worst WW sales leader that was sued by Avaya and then had legal issues at Checkpoint...even his buddy that follows him everywhere GB also had legal... — read more
If you think Juniper is a rough and tough fast moving company then you’re part of the problem
A lot of smart people here. If your a high performer you work as hard as you want to at juniper. That is, the speed and standards of your management are much lower than the standards that you hold yourself to. If you think Juniper is a rough and... — read more
Layoffs will be rolling throughout the month of January on Tuesdays until the earnings call
According to some on this site, the layoffs will be next week. But if experience tells me anything, they'll be rolling throughout the month of January on Tuesdays until the earnings call. Experience also tells me Product Management and Contrail will... — read more
Curious
Why do you stay at Juniper? It's been a while since I've talked to somebody who actually likes working here (besides myself,) and yet I don't see anybody trying actively to leave. So what is it? What is keeping you here despite hating it? I'm... — read more
There are many good people at Juniper, but none of them are in charge
There was a post that said "there are many good people at Juniper". I agree, but I also emphasize that none of them are in charge. So who is making sound business decisions at juniper? No one. The reality is the Juniper way has now transformed into a... — read more
Juniper IT Org (part thereof) outsourced to IBM
Juniper IT Org (part thereof) outsourced to IBM, include IT org employees https://whatsonthorold.com/2019/01/07/juniper-networks-inc-files-8-k/
What about this week?
Have there been any layoffs?
Any update on layoffs
Just curious. Number and update, please share
It's starting
Just got off a conf call with our new sales VP for SP. Guys the layoff stuff is real. Axes will be falling later this week, and through January in bursts. Any quota carrying group that didn't make plan is going to be severely affected. One group in... — read more
Take Note
Be Aware: "3.0 Juniper Summary Profession Services Security Engineer (Former Employee) – San Jose – June 18, 2018 Juniper - terminated me after 11 years , 2 days after I had come back from medical leave. I enjoyed the people . The salary was good ... — read more
With Enterprise as a target, just what are the breakthrough products we’ll market?
Shuffling the sales team doesn't fix the portfolio problem. What do we have to lead in this space?
juniper is a $hit show of a circus
to say things are bad would be an absolute understatement. moral is at an all time low in every part of the company. incompetence is front and center. what can be said that has not already been said on this message board. after being at juniper for... — read more
Westford is closing
To be announced in January. Westford and Bridgewater are closing, jobs eliminated or moved to Bangalore.
Juniper announces the date of the 4th quarter an fiscal year financial results
The conference call in which the preliminary financial results for the 4th quarter and fiscal year will be announced will take place on January 29th, after the close of the market. If anyone is interested, the further details are in the link below... — read more
Is it ignorance, arrogance or incompetence?
From the looks of it, most companies in Silicon Valley are run better than Juniper. More employees are content with their employer, at other companies, than at Juniper. So, why doesn't the leadership team recognize this and do something about it. Is... — read more
What is going in Westford?
I used to work in WFD in BRAS and when I left, the software was pretty much in maintenance mode. My guess at that point was that all work would move to Bangalore and slowly they would eliminate resources from WFD. I am hearing in this thread about... — read more
Google & PAN partnership
Who is not surprised about this news? What a slap in the face for jnpr! Now what will AA do about this? Nothing? Just pretend this never happened?... — read more
How and Why is Ciena Growing and Juniper is Staying So Far Behind?
No Optical Illusion at Ciena (from the WSJ) The superstitious set can breathe a bit easier about Ciena CIEN -1.03% after the supplier of fiber-optic networking equipment appeared to be tempting fate. Its fiscal third-quarter earnings report came on... — read more
What about cloud services platform team
No revenue fro RD and their suboridnates. Contrail took over this for nothing. Waste of investiment from Juniper on CSP and SDWAN. No major impact and waste project.
Rami Rahim owns accountability
Rami Rahim owns accountability for false promotions over all and killing other people's hardwork. I clearly observed that due to some ego politics, the internal positions and promotions are considered for new hires rather for the people who are... — read more
AWS replaces Juniper routers
https://seekingalpha.com/news/3416919-report-aws-replaces-juniper-routers It is a just matter of time - All cloud builders will kick Juniper out.
Sunnyvale, Westford and Bangalore
Juniper has poor management, worldwide. Not just Sunnyvale, Westford and Bangalore. It is a problem that has developed over years due to poor leadership, lack of vision and just plain arrogance. The arrogance to ignore changing market requirements... — read more
Root cause analysis
I echo what someone posted about AC. In all the years I’ve known him I can tell you he is respected by the customer, coworkers and friends. When he walks in to VZ headquarters he is greeted with respect and appreciation despite the challenges the... — read more
The execs are real a--holes
RR,AA,VT, AK, BK and many VP and Exec are real a-- holes and must be fired immidiately. Also, many directors and above needs major cleanup.
GTM organizational structure being announced next week
significant changes are being announced next week. the new arrogant regime has completely overhauled GTM. layoffs will be brutal early Jan. decisions being made by people that are clues. remember this post Q1 and Q2 results will be a disaster because... — read more
Failed experiment
The notion of moving Product Management, and Marketing, under one indivifual (ML), to align their efforts, forcing these organizations to work towards unified goals and adopt common priorities, and most importantly work on shared timelines, has... — read more
Things Juniper must do to avoid layoffs
They shouldn't hire exec from outside, the new exec (ML, BK) joined didn't add any value to the company. Only PFE/Contrail teams have Most of DEs/PEs. Encourage and invest in other teams. Eliminate stupid promotions to encourage Mafia. Encourage... — read more
Juniper to buy HTBASE
Juniper representatives offici8aly announced that the company has the intention of acquiring HTBASE. HTBASE offers a single layer of compute, networking and storage across public and private clouds as well as the edge, greatly simplifying how... — read more
he fundamental problem at Juniper is cohesion
There is a comment on here saying juniper wants to be Enterprise focused and eliminate service Provider focused jobs. IMHO, this would be a horrible move and i hope there is nothing further than the truth. Juniper is, and will always will, cater to... — read more