For years Juniper has been giving promotions to people based on nepotism and their ability to brown-nose and nod their heads affirmatively to whatever those above them are saying. Is it any shock then that we now have a majority of managers who have no idea what they’re doing? You ask them a question, and they often have no idea what you’re talking about. It would be funny if it wasn’t sad.
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managers thank employees publicly for working on weekends and more thanks when employees work when they are sick. Promotion of bad culture in the company
So glad I got out of the crazy place a few years back. It sounds like it hasn't changed one bit. My advice, get out as quick as you can. PANW, FTNT or even Cisco are a much better choice
With 15 years at Juniper, I don't agree so much with the nepotism, but Juniper may be the stingiest company in America. They are notoriously tighter than a frog's a$$hole when it comes to raises and promotions. Worse than this, I believe that lower management completely fails us with respect to actually 'managing' our career growth in the company. We also took a Juniper-mandated class that taught us that "a failure is an opportunity for improvement" which is total bulls**t. If you make a mistake - and you will - they will never forget it. You can sacrifice everything for the company - working 14 hour days, working weekends and holidays, and taking calls during PTO - but that one little mistake will cost you. Still, Juniper pays well and the bonuses are generous. For the most part, my co-workers are professional and great to work with - with the exception of only a couple of hotheads, which is not bad, since there is no such thing as a perfect work environment. I guess where they need to improve is in hiring professional managers instead of promoting buddies from within. They should also grow up and realize people are not perfect: everyone - including themselves - are going to make mistakes. Punishing you by holding back a raise or a promotion is so sweatshop. I think people are leaving because they just feel so unmotivated and ostracized. Perhaps things will improves when AI dominates the industry.
spot on. our new Director came in and acted like he had years of sales management experience but a quick look at his LinkedIn Profile shows his only real leadership was for a short 15 month period, prior he was like me just a bag carrier. He left when to a small second tier reseller for a year then another second tier firm for a year and somehow was given his Director position at Juniper which imo should have been given to a more experienced manager not one who has jumped each year for the past four. But thats Juniper they hire who they feel with be the yes men. News flash and I ll bet 100 .00 on this this guy will last two years and then with Juniper on his resume bail along with the folks he's brought in.
This is the hard part everyone, you have to start at the top and I mean the top. Honestly I think people are afraid to state Junipers failure starts at the very top and nothing will change until that is addressed. Stock has done nothing in years, they acquire companies for the technology but don't want to listen to those that came with the acquiring company on how to be successful (except for Mist). I was one of those who was part of an acquisition, and the moment I told them how they were selling wouldn't work I got blacklisted and viewed as a problem (which is why I left). My sales leader that came over had the worst job in the world dealing with the Juniper politics and when he told leaders how to fix the problems he was let go. I have been asked more than a dozen times from friends and former colleagues about going to work at Juniper and I never encourage it. This could just be my experience but that is how I feel.
One SVP only employed ‘yes men/women’ that agreed with them and didn’t challenge the vision or strategy about focusing on something Juniper had no capability of delivering.
Nodding dogs, oh yes, great idea, we’ll done.. let’s all pat each other on the back.. so it became a thing of actually believing the stuff they were spouting… dare challenge it and you’re gone…
I loved Juniper when I started, it felt like a great place to be, great people.. but as they all one by one left, I looked around to see myself with people that just didn’t have a clue about customers, strategy, sales and selling or marketing to Junipers strengths..
I was forced out because I wanted Juniper to succeed and not just su-k up to the bobble heads
So true.