Thread regarding Juniper Networks Inc. layoffs

Layoffs at Juniper are all about saving numbers at the expense of humans, for the survival of a few incompetent leaders who are threatened by competent and productive people. Therefore these stealth layoffs are carried out to accomplish more than one goal:

• execute fake PIPs, served on competent and productive employees

• eliminate senior reports who actually get things done but are a direct threat to the managers

• help reduce operational expenses faster as senior employees are obviously compensated on higher bands/grades/levels

• carried out as stealth layoffs, with no severance packages in some instances (for PIPs for example)

• last but not least, these activities bring out the worst in humanity and you do not want to be associated with these events.

So if you get any hint of being drawn into any situation described above, get AWS/GCPA/zure certified and find yourself a new job.

Personally, I don't want the leadership at juniper to change (their ways). I would rather see them "change" the entire leadership team. Throw them all out, just like they do to the well meaning, hardworking, seasoned veterans that built the place up from scratch. This is the only way to turn the company around.

Great presentation. Thanks for pointing this out. I was let go in the last round in January. For the almost two years before that I had a Boss that talked about loyalty and how we were a family. I guess that loyalty only goes one way in Juniper :)

@Ytset97-1pwk I think that Juniper spreads out the layoffs or does stealth layoffs in order to hide this ageism that's going on. And yes our admin staff here in Herndon got affected as well. The only good news according to my manager is that Juniper is actively recruiting and retaining under represented minorities and women here in the US.

This is not just all about engineers. This happens at every function in Juniper. There is age discrimination blatantly going on I don’t care if you call it senior versus Junior, highly paid versus newbies whatever you wanna call it, it’s blatant age discrimination.

I hope some Juniper leadership pays attention. Reward your loyal employees, not just your DEs/PEs and @ss kissers. If you must laid off folks, please start with the junior and not the senior engineers who have contributed much and demonstrated loyalty to the company. Juniper is doing the opposite: get rid of older expensive senior employees in favor of cheap Juniper engineers in Bangalore.

I love the sentiment....don't think it will happen at juniper though.