Thread regarding Juniper Networks Inc. layoffs

Though we cannot blame one person, most companies end up resolving to layoffs to recover from the mistakes and bad decisions made by a few in leadership roles. Sadly, these individuals survive through many rounds of layoffs and cuts, over and over again. The result is they get promoted and handed more decision making power over time. Juniper has departments that suffer from this phenomenon - Groups in HR, Marketing, Sales, and Engineering exhibit this classic symptom of decline.

So you are correct, in stating that you cannot blame one person. You cannot blame the CEO or the C-Suite. It is, however, the responsibility of the leaders to recognize this decline and fix it. Can one round of layoffs fix it? No. Is there hope for Juniper to bounce back? Yes. HR needs to overhauled first, followed by Marketing, JDI, and Sales, then Ops, Services. Personally, I have 0% confidence this transformation will happen anytime soon.

It's not accurate or fair to blame lay-offs or a slump in sales/$ for R&D on one person. I get it, but he's not doing this in a vacuum... He still has upper management himself... seems a bit of the finger-pointing should be targeted a bit higher if any one person is to be held accountable for doing the needful. I've been with the company over 10 years and I was around when Juniper was a cross between a country club and an adult playground... but the times are a' changin' once again - the industry is cyclical, anyone who's been in it over 25 years as I have, are used to this roller-coaster ride. It slinks to get laid off and to see co-workers and even friends get let go, but this is SOP for any company in lean times. I preferred the previous years under that great management we had, but we forget how easy they had it compared to the Big Guy running the show now. For every negative, there's a positive, and the positive is that though lay-offs are very painful (I've been there, done that) many others still remain employed and the company lives to see another quarter or two. This can't be blamed on one individual, no matter how unpopular he is. It's business. It's life.

Has the massacre started?

With Cisco’s ongoing layoffs, Juniper has the perfect backdrop to stay under the radar and deliver it’s pink slips to the masses. Cisco is pushing out senior employees, with the aim of bringing down the average age, and expenses, drastically. Juniper won’t be any different, this month.

Financial analysts have started downgrading Juniper, so leadership will react with some knee jerk actions to save face. Hang tight people.

I am also in EMEA and I second this. Rumours are strife and everyone i know is looking for a job and/or already has an offer. As if it was not bad enough before, they hired a guy back in July whose only activity at his previous place of employment at Brocade was to fire people to balance numbers. It has been a horrible 8-10 months in EMEA with total inefficient s----ups being promoted to managerial ranks simply because these career losers have been kissing a$$es here for over 8-9 years - people who would not find a job - any job - anywhere else. And now we have a boss whose management style is to hold a gun to our head. I am waiting for at least one concrete offer - I have been promised one over phone - and then I am gone. Last 3.5 years have been largely good, but since Q4 2016 its been a nightmare. Sad to see how fast Juniper EMEA has gone down.