Juniper will be eliminating 15 to 18 percent of the world-wide workforce in January. Leadership is starting to put names on lists. Confirmed
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@VWno63Y-34wdk, Juniper PMs get high profile / high ranking jobs, after leaving. They are responsible for Juniper's failures, but end up getting top jobs.
Acquisitions are meaningless when the strategies are of the past.
Musical chairs are a joke to try to recycle the past.
Support for diversity is meaningless when diversity is a show case.
Distributed workforce is a joke and when only a couple of locations matters.
Innovation is pointless when skin colors and locations take precedence.
Wake up. You are not innovative nor global. You are political, self centered, discriminative, biased, and arrogant.
It has always been who you know, who you are, and what you can kiss up to.
Juniper's PLM team is world class. They are the best product managers in the industry - all over the world.
What are they good at, you ask?
Well, glad you asked. They are good at sücking at everything. I mean everything. They sück so bad, most of them don't even know they sück. Ask KK, VP of routing PLM, why he is getting booted. You could ask MM ( VP of switching PLM) why he got booted. They are equally arrogant and they both, ... You guessed it -- sück.
PLM team is weak...only follow big names...forget the market need
Weak PLM team lost focus, no new products, never listen from field product pricing and performance with no edge, weak management team with no execution, talents are all gone. RR still a good leader?
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 Service providers first. The largest customer is a communications SP who spends upwards of $500M per quarter on products and services. All successful products juniper has ever made were targeted to these segments of the market, first. Any residual opportunities to position these products and solutions to large enterprises has always been a welcome benefit, as many Juniper products find themselves into large and some cases even small corporations.
Lately, because marketing resources are limited, and the lack of understanding of the marketing teams, many marketing efforts have focused on Enterprises. This helps to reach new markets with existing product, but as seen so far, jeopardizes the relationship with existing (sales) relationships and partnerships. Marketing does not see this as a problem and the CMO and his leadership team has foolishly led the company astray, while the Product Managers continue their focus on SPs.
There you have it... The fundamental problem at juniper therefore is not a lack of focus. It is a matter of cohesion. There is focus... Product Management on SPs, and Marketing on Enterprise. Yet they are not in sync. RR needs to fix this first. Firing and laying off people is not the only answer. However, hiring a good CMO who will transform Juniper's marketing focus and engage the teams with real leadership and knowledge of target segments is the first step. Hopefully the restructuring in January will address this.
MJGA - make juniper great again!
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The October layoffs were put on hold to try to restructure in one shot. Hearing from a high level manager that the numbers are close to what are being reported here but somewhere in the middle of the low and high percentage, it is all still fluid and managers are putting together lists.
Works is being moved to Bangalore, while we stand to pay the price, which has been the case now for the past few years. It's why the company is bleeding, for those of us that have been with the company since work started to move off shore we've all seen the company begin to take a nose dive.
It was a great company to work for at one time, then we brought in management that were only looking out for themselves, every group in the US should fasten their seatbelts because turbulence is ahead with significant cuts.
Wake up people! The rest of the market is positive and growing! People are being hired, receiving raises and not dealing with layoffs after layoffs and deteriorating morale... I respect being loyal but being blind and naive, not so much.
Confirmed January Layoffs.
Don't know the size. Nobody really knows the true impact. They've whittled away thru stealth or through attrition over the last years so I don't believe it'll be anywhere near as armageddonish as some believe.
My guess is 5%
In any case many should prep for interviews (Leetcode!). The constant stress of this bi-monthly layoff nonsense gets old. There's brilliant hard working people at Juniper. Best of the best! They should find homes elsewhere!
Confirmed rumor with Sr. Director this morning. There's no loyalty!
Unfortunately, the rumor is true. The planning is currently underway. All departments will be affected. This one will be a big one! :(
Large layoff coming in January 2019 confirmed
confirmed about layoffs being planned for Jan. 2019
Yes, let's have some smartsizing. Never hurts to have EPS optimised.
confirmed that layoffs are coming in January and in a big way, the company is bleeding out money and cannot make up the revenue to hit the target needed. Also, getting kicked around the playground by the competitors... BTW, yes quarterly layoffs but quietly executed...not a good place if you value your career...
An announcement of a large layoff will bump the stock price up temporarily as investors will welcome that as a sign to restructure the company, cut costs and improve numbers . So yes, can and will happen same as in 2017
Layoffs have been happening in small batches all year. Whoever says that hasn’t been happening either isn’t an employee or hasn’t been paying attention. Seems unlikely any large layoff is coming but who knows. Might be ready to admit publicaly they’re restructuring the company.
Who is the Director who monitors this site, and in which department does he work, or who does he report to?
@VWno63Y-1lfa Morale of “good” people at Juniper are already pretty tanked. Unless by “good” you mean the political mafia
This site was pretty accurate about many things including the two layoffs in 2017. Everyone knows this is a rumor site, so use your brain to do some due diligence for whatever you read here. Also rumors on this site don't have enough influence on stock market ever. If they do, the guy who started the rumor of JNPR mooning to $100 wouldn't look so funny now. lol
The Juniper Director in charge of monitoring this site is irked again.
Maybe the "money printing" guy can assume the "FAKE NEWS" role. They smell the same anyway.
Westford got remodeled! That’s why 50% of cubes was empty. Half the building was empty....are we to assume that all those people got fired?! That’s what they say here though....nothing but a bunch of lies on this site to start rumors and jack stock price!!
If you got legitimately laid off, sorry for that but that is no reason to start rumors and tank morale for a lot of good people that work there!
@VWno63Y-1svo Who knows? Maybe the FAKE NEWS dude got the ticket in the last round.
Where's FAKE NEWS dude when we need him?
Westford might still be technically “open” but the staff is down at least 50% in the last year. Unoccupied cubes as far as the eye can see. It doesn’t take a soothsayer to predict the future here.
This site is all BS!! They also said Westford was closing. Don’t believe anything you read here as it is all Fakenews like CNN!!
Just chop it off, it will increase eps further and make juniper great again.
Maybe 15 to 18% throughout the year of 2019. Such a big layoff hasn't been the style at Juniper. They might start with the marketing organization. At the moment, it's a cost center providing no uplift in growing the topline. Most of the upper management in the marketing organization do not seem to understand the markets we operate in.
@VWno63Y-qam: I was in Juniper in 2017. They did 2 layoffs one in Mar and another in Oct. It was not once per quarter. Not sure what happened in 2018. Haven't heard of 2018 layoffs except on this website.
Skills transformation requirements and lack of revenue growth would be the reasons. We have lots of skills and product sets pointed at service providers when juniper wants to have an enterprise focus. Best to rip off the bandaid all at once!
If 15-18% is to be believed then that number would be on the backs of hard working lower levels that actually do the work!
There's not enough Machiavellian Sr. Level Execs (VP & above) to hack into to make up for the 15%+.
Aren't you guys tired of hearing these rumors/half rumors?......Start Leetcoding prep now and begin applying elsewhere!
This is BS. That's not Juniper's style. Look at the last several years.
They do stealth layoffs so as to avoid media coverage which would drag the dead stock down. Such a thing would drag it down to $22/share and not recuperate to it's overinflated $29/share, which has not been seen in quite some time.
seriously @VWno63Y-etl!?!? they have been laying off every QTR for the 2+ years
15 to 18%?! WoW! If they really let go of the tards, the bullies and the trolls, I may just get back in to work for Juniper in EMEAR again! The only way Juniper in EMEAR can get on horse if they crush the fiefdoms and let go of the century old fat of unnecessary layers of incompetent man-managers promoted as part of the mafia. Make EMEA Great Again!
I have been hearing layoff rumors on this forum for months. Have any layoffs really happened in 2018? If yes, then why one more round in Jan 2019?
"Leadership" lol.