Thread regarding Juniper Networks Inc. layoffs

Similar stratergy in the US... letting people go with deliberate gaps in between does not appear like a massive lay off, but hey, we can count. The mass exodus has begun. Yes, good employees are 'being invited not to work' anymore, since Juniper doesn't want to admit to having layoffs or anything remotely connected with resource reduction, and call it that. "Re-structuring", is the preffered term. :)

Apparently around 20 odd have already been laid off in EMEA quietly including a very well-liked upper mgmt figure in the less than one month that we have a new boss here. The boss is ex-Brocade and doing what he did to Brocade: running the company to ground. Any company's greatest asset is its people. As soon as they start treating employees like Wall St. numbers, its game over for the company. People working here will not have their heart in their work, they will be looking for work outside.

In preparation for the earnings call, some numbers have been leaked out. So, now we won't look that bad on the call. We just can't keep up with industry (growth) rates, or the competition. Can we?

When the competition goes high, JNPR goes low. That's the trend. Expect cuts. It's going to happen if sales are weak last quarter. Hopefully, clean out the riffraff, while we are at it?

http://marketrealist.com/2017/07/will-cloud-drive-revenue-for-juniper-in-2q17/

Well, it not exactly an "India Company". Its a Silicon valley outfit which has development centres in India. It also has a plethora of new products . Issue is execution, time to market and surviving competition. That's where a dynamic upper layer would help. Some very good people have left recently. Some more were made to leave. And some people have been promoted to Managerial ranks in EMEA in a knee-jerk plug-the-hole panic mode who are anything but qualified to be managerial and has their own selfish agenda. Agreeably, its a situation where a beast appears to be dying and parasites are feeding on the dying carcass.

This India company is junk. I don't think they can survive through 2019. No new products.

On May 8th, Reuters reported "Juniper Networks says in Q1 of 2017 initiated restructuring plan, to realign workforce and increase operational efficiencies - SEC filing. Juniper Networks says in Q1 of 2017, recorded $19.4 million in charges on condensed consolidated statement of operations. Juniper Networks says 2017 restructuring plan could be subsequently amended and additional restructuring charges could be incurred." in this article - http://www.reuters.com/finance/stocks/JNPR.N/key-developments/article/3586627

Reading between the lines, what is disturbing all of us reading this, creating a sense of uneasiness, is the last sentence. The promise to "subsequently amend" and "additional restructuring". Is this the warning that more layoffs are on the way? Absolutely. The question is when? and how deep will these cuts be? The reallity is, Juniper does have a lot of fat, that needs to be trimmed. From the CxO and VP/Director level on down, there are many expendables. The problem is, historicaly, Juniper has done an extremely poor job identifying the fat - giving way to politics, friedships and other crooked ways of protecting worthless individuals through promotions, re-orgs and restructuring, and getting rid of highly productive personnel. Will history repeat itself? Most definitely, it's Juniper after all.

Any updates on the layoffs? Rumor on the street is last week of June or early July. Everyone is restless and stressed out. EMEA has a new leader who came over from Brocade. Even if Broadcom, Arris and Extreme doesn't wan't you, Juniper has a great job for you, like running all of EMEA. :)

BTW, there is a new press release today, 6/20, with more baseless claims of "disruption" and "transformation", from what I gather, marketing (?). Lots of marekting spin without real products to back it up. Delusional at best.

The only transformation and disruption, that can help us at this point is to get these loonies leading us down into the abyss of a black hole, to "transform" themselves out of "disrupting" this company, (and get the f*** out). JDI (and Sales) have had enough of this whack! Does the CEO and the rest of the leadership team know whats going on and have enough balls to address this ASAP, and do something about it? Who comes up with this nonsense? http://newsroom.juniper.net/press-releases/juniper-networks-unveils-cloud-grade-networking-to-accelerate-agility-and-innova-nyse-jnpr-11g141418-001

Totally agree. Rumoredly, layoffs have started. In US and India