The biggest waste of money at Juniper is in Marketing. We continuously do (A.D.D. like) aimless promotions and meaningless campaigns - reacting to the successes of the competition. JDI (PLM, and Engineering), is often over-reactive to noisy customers, deviating from our own goals - squeaky wheel gets the oil. Big customers mislead us way too often.
When Arista kicks butt in the Cloud Data Centers, Juniper starts chasing the Cloud. When an important service provider wants us to work on some technology such as NFV, we chase that. In some cases, these customers disappear after we spend resources developing products for them, with noe NRE investment from them. This happens for hardware and software. If there is industry hype about SD-WAN, we start chasing that.
Similar short lived, (reactive) focus on Security, Automation, DC fabrics, telco clouds etc. etc. etc., is all too common. Today's buzz word is "multi-cloud". How long will that last? Just goes to show we have no direction, and we are following the competition, with no real leadership from within. To be honest, we have no clue where we should focus our attention - in development, marketing or sales. We have lost too many of these types of gambles in the recent past.
Layoffs in the coming weeks won't fix any of these problems, unless those responsible are forced out. We are way too F---ed Up...