JE bad. Indescribably bad. What was ML thinking? No way she’ll make it past 16 months.
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OP, you're an id--t. See how easy it is to throw insults around? If you think JE is bad, then say why and give an example. I think you're an id--t for whining about a brand new CMO on a layoffs board. Support her, give her a chance, and if in a year she has made strategic mistakes, then make your point specifically.
Gentlemen??? Did juniper layoff all the female employees?
Gentlemen, can we get back to the thread? It is hard to comprehend how vacuous JE is. I guess this shows that no one from Marketing is on this forum because let me tell you there would be a flood of exasperation in this thread.
Juniper never encouraged academic people, they encourage people who get junk done out of pressure.
Leadership as whole is weak. Look at stock performance over the course of the last 10 years, compare against competitors, review cash on hand over 10 years, compare against competitors and you will see why I make a broad statement the leadership is weak. As a customer I love Mist but the rest of the product line is not compelling.
Steve Jobs was also able to get an admit in the top University in USA, which is the top school in the world : that is Stanford and Bill Gates was able to secure an admit in Harvard.
Securing an admit in Harvard/Stanford/other Ivy league schools of US is a proof in itself that those are some great minds, who basically started a revolution in computing when they were pretty young.
My point was that many VPs in JNPR not only lack higher education degrees but even their B.Tech is from very average institutes in India. If any one of these VPs was anywhere close to Steve Jobs, then JNPR wouldn't be having layoffs so frequently and JNPR would have been the size of Apple or Microsoft.
Steve Jobs did not have a college degree. He attended Reed College in Portland, Oregon, for one semester in 1972, but he dropped out and never graduated. He continued to audit classes that interested him, such as calligraphy, which later influenced the design of the Macintosh computer.
This is best example that proves to be in business, you don't necessarily need a degree from a well known school. Business needs passion and commitment.
ML is not that educated to be an EVP in a tech company, just a B.Tech from an average institute in India. Juniper needs to hire more competent people for execs. Most of the execs VP+ level are just B.Tech from some random college in India (not even from IITs). Check their LinkedIns.