I was visiting a very ill relative at the hospital and while looking around I see Cisco wireless access points, cisco security IP cameras, nurses carrying cisco wireless voip phones, cisco ip phones, everything Cisco!
Makes me wonder what are the Juniper sales engineers doing that can’t seal the deal with customers.
Juniper really needs to find ways to partner with ISPs and offer a consumer modem (cable, dsl or vdsl etc) that has SRX firewall integrated.
Their sales engineers should expand focus on different customer sectors besides government such as education (K-12, universities), health care (medical equipments need to be protected from hackers right? Otherwise jnpr is screwed to the hole.
"Who does Juniper sell their products to?", you ask?
No one !
Therein the reason for more layoffs in the next few weeks.
@RR5aF0V-1gxh I have been at juniper for 1.5 years right after college. It was good first year and the compensation was not bad.
But after a year I have realized my productivity went down, my morale went down and lost my confidence in building them. It took 6 months for me to prepare and jump out, yet no one questioned why I wasn’t working much, because others in the team don’t work too. And when the layoff comes it’s a nightmare who would go and who would stay. I survived 2 layoffs in 1 year but I was done with it. There is no point when you don’t write code you loose confidence.
Now I came to a amazing place, and I am productive since day 1 and I am making an impact. I would suggest you to interview with other companies and avoid going to juniper.
Or use it as a stepping stone for the next one, keep that in your mind from day 1
@RR5aF0V-1gxh as a software enigeneer know this: Juniper's product development cycle is one of the longest, if not the longest in the industry. The biggest reason why the current trend among Juniper dev team is to leave enmass for Arista. Well, you can too after you are there for a while and figure out that showing one release of CSO in your CV, which does not work anyway in 1 year cannot be the greatest career move you have ever made.
For a starter, Juniper pay package is good, as it was in my case; the first one odd year was also good and then I realised that people who stayed there were either career Juniper people, worked their for 7+ years or they leave - I am leaving, I am not a career Juniper drone. The product dev thought process is a mess. They announced QFX5300 to customers, scrapped it; they started talking about SD-WAN, CSO etc. in Nov 2015, CSO is now version 3.2 and still scratchy - and Cisco now has ENCS, Viptela and NSO (Tail-F) - all field tested except for ENCS but that's a box and that will be good.
And on top of all that there is the sword of Democles hanging on everybody - poor management, spending too much time , money and energy behind non-existent solutions (SDSN, IoT,...), stock price at a freefall after each QBR..the list goes on. They have ppt's wih SDSN all over BUT for SDSN solution tey have SRX and vSRX and that's it - rest are BS wrapped in "automation", "orchestration" , "ML" - all the key industry words but no product/solution relevance They will be firing people - now whether or not they wake up and fire the guilty or protect the guilty as they always have and fire the sacrificial technical is something to be seen.
If I were you, I'd hang around to join a Arista or a Cisco (yes, their software strategy is completely revamped and getting traction from customer base as reflected in stock price) or a Cumulus Networks (who are looking for people, I am just off my fourth interview and amazing solution) . Whatever you decide, best wishes staying out of the swamp.
I am joining juniper next month. Currently working in a leading customer exp ( telecom) software company. I am getting half pay as juniper but my job is secure and company is good to work. Never heard of term LAYOFF in my past 3.5 years there.
Now i am confused what to do??
"Did'nt " is the key word. They have not had any in the last 4 odd years.
Didn’t Juniper have a wifi product? The AX411 or Trapeze?
Well, Juniper has no wifi, no voice, no telephony, no mobility solutions. BUT they keep talking about IoT and 5G under the assumption that customers are stupid, naive and buy stuff from Juniper which Juniper does not sell. It’s a wonder for me why Juniper does that - ie talk about solutions that they DONt have!
Oh, btw, they have no credibility in security market either. They are good in legacy MPLS , routing and switching. They are phenomenally efficient at promoting ludicrous, inexperienced waste of spaces in management positions in EMEA. Makes you think they don’t care about quality of leadership.
I am handing in my papers next week. Goodbye Juniper, Cisco, here I come! 😄