Article published on Forbes today: Juniper Networks CEO Rami Rahim Brings Startup Mentality To Running $5 Billion Business ( https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucerogers/2017/09/21/juniper-networks-ceo-rami-rahim-brings-start-up-mentality-to-running-5-billion-business/ )
...That's why the work environment s---s.
Maybe after the layoff next month, Juniper will have a workforce as big as a startup. :)
Did Rami say he has made the organization flat like a startup?
We have seven to eight layers before you Have a VP in the organization structure. Often managers and directors reporting to same level managers and directors and this is not a anamoly in the engineering.
May be Rami has become adept at duble speak or get doesnt know whats happening.
Yep, well said and I can’t agree more @Pn6Oiip-2bff. Too many chiefs and not enough Indians!
VP from India may travel to Sunnyvale to be terminated himself. In all seriousness, what Rami is desperately looking for is Innovation, like we were a startup. Bursting with new ideas, and bringing them to fruition. Sadly, this wont happen with the half witted middle management and leadership we have now. That is why we can only hope this layoff will be a cleaning cycle so badly needed, and will not be an ethnic cleansing as some of you wish for, but rather a cleaning out of the people who have been promoted to their point of (ineffective) incompetence. Juniper is the best example of the Peter Principle, at every level, in every organization. This is our only chance to see it corrected, and corrected for good. Let’s hope the good in engineering, sales, operations, IT and marketing, and yes, even management and HR, are spared, and the rest, let go. There is no room for error this time around. Elliot and Co., will attack with a vengeance, if not done right. Last time 35+ VPs got axed. This time hoards of extraneous Directors, VPs and even a CxO or two need to get booted.
Take note HR, (we know you read this board). Don’t f^ck this up.
BJ ?? Ho Ho Ho. Looks like someone unfortunate souls will be getting their Dewalee gifts a week earlier from Santa BJ !
Do the India folks do any work at all? All they want is more money. And Indian vp coming here and firing good people is just so wrong on so many levels.
Indian VP laying off US IT employees. Can’t get anymore stupid that this.
No other company of this size shipped as many jobs to India as Juniper. They have fifty percent of employees in India and Bangalore is the largest engineering org.
Compare that to Cisco at 15% and Netapp has 20% employees in India,
Which VP ? IT ?????
The Indian VP is coming the second week of October to Sunnyvale. A good ole’ Halloween massacre awaits.