Thread regarding Juniper Networks Inc. layoffs

The “head in the sand” mentality of our leadership, ignoring the real issues at hand, is just one reason Junper has become what it is. Marketing leadership is just ignorant. just plain and simple idîots. The arrogance of (mostly) routing PLMs is another reason. It is well know KK to be a royal a-hole. His employees don't like to be seen eating lunch in the cafetaria, because KK will let them know they should be working during lunch. Anyway, that aside, the PLMs sùck at what they do too. That’s why it is hard to sell anything they come up with. They define what they think is s-xy, or is convenient to build at the time. Not anything based on what customers need, or at the price points that sales can succesfuly sell stuff. Last but not least, sales has no real leadership. They all pat themselves on the back even though the ship is sinking. Listen to our sales leaders, and they too sound like we are floating on nine, always trying to tell us how good the road ahead is, when we are running out of time and resources to stay afloat. Sadly we have little chance of survival, as listed in some other posts.

That Is so funny - MB trying to clean up the image of juniper marketing before his forced "take over" of the CMO job. MM won't know what hit him. Maybe MB wants to büllshït all the way up to becoming the CEO.

Who cares... We are done. There is no chance for recovery at Juniper. These clowns have made this circus unbearable.

Imagine the real Glassdoor ranking if unfavorable reviews were included.

That direct report to the CMO is MB. He is the one who is monitoring this site and working with legal. I've noticed all my posts revealing the problems under marketing have been removed. Likewise, my review on Glassdoor has also been deleted!

I expect full well that MB to read my post, contact Juniper Legal and have Layoff remove this post.

MB is absolute scum-bag and that's not an understatement!

Several marketing leaders responsible for partners are - partners themselves, in a different sense! They are into each other, and not their work. :). The drama in Juniper marketing just keeps on creating more drama.

All posts with names, initials and any identifiable characeristics such as responsibilities, or area of focus etc, are slowly being purged from this site.

A direct report of the CMO in marketing monitors this site daily and works with legal to get thelayoff.com to clean out these posts.

The CMO and his leadership team at JNPR are trying to project a false image and build a juniper brand similar to Apple - for security, data center and SP networking.

Unfortunately for us, Arista has taken that title and become the darling for DC.

Cisco, Nokia, Ericsson, Huawei, ZTE are battling it out on SP.

Customers play hot potato with security companies.

So where does Juniper fit in? Nowhere!

Can Contrail, Automation, Autonomous / self driving networks help Juniper see daylight? Probably not. Juniper is done. We are dieing a slow and painful death. More layoffs to make room for tje takeover.

I just checked my Glassdoor account, and all of my 2 star and under ratings were removed by Juniper.

Thats brutal coverup.

Glassdoor is routinely cleaned for unfavorable posts. Probably.

Sh-- has not got real under ML... and he is proving to be a failure.

Why are so many posts missing from this site? Are they cleaning up posts with names?

How is this new CPO? BTW why are we so wildly innovating on tiltes? What is gonna be next? Chief Qualilty Officer?

Right - no golfing your way out of this one.

I heard they’re under ML now, so I expect $hit is gonna’ get real now ...

Marketing at Juniper operates as if it was constantly proving the old proverb "if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail". That is, marketing at Junipermis reluctant to change, as a few arrogant persons who make decisions and call the shots are fixated on what they know, even if the what they know is hardly relevant. This would not be a problem if they were competent persons who were creative problem solvers. However, they are not. For example, a director level person with (limited) knowledge of optical technologies Appointed himself to market sdn/nfv and related products. Even with his direct connections to persons at Cisco and copying a lot of material he obtained from Cisco, the marketing efforts were a gigantic flop. Incompetence along the chain of command and IMHO the bad decision to promote this person was a key turning point for Juniper's marketing decline. I was told a minority quota had to be met when this change took place. As a result, every marketing activity since then has been flawed. A failure. Well, not entirely, because MM can now claim his contribution to the #blacklivesmatter movement. Sadly, that does not good for Juniper and the layoffs that continue every quarter. Wake up JNPR Marketing, change or be shamed!

Juniper is not the first company trying to project an image of "a communications company that builds products like Apple". In fact there are companies in every field that try to "be like Apple". Truth be told, the culture at Juniper is miles apart from Apple. Similarly, the quality, design and usability of products these two companies produce are miles apart as well. There is no comparison. Why the CEO & CMO at Juniper, aspire to be what they are not, while trying to appeal to totally different customer bases, is simply a fundamental and fatal flaw. Just goes to show how this CEO and CMO, neither of whom are grounded in reality, are chasing pipe dreams, and how they are bringing down a good company. The board needs to act quickly and fire these two clowns, before they do any more damage.

Thank you for starting a thread on this topic. Marketing at Juniper does sûck and this group in particular is responsible for getting rid of extremely valuable employees. People who are smart, intelligent, know what they were doing and work tirelessly without egos to get things done are frequently pushed out by the ignorant CMO and his half witted leaders. Though a recent shake up included the elimination of two key VPs in marketing, a large number of Senior Directors, Directors and Managers, who no idea what they do or understand what they are supposed to do, remain.

I know first hand some of these individuals have been appointed through influences, nepotism, friendships etc. Promotions are to a large extent based on who you know, and not based on skills, potential, and achievement.

It is quite risky to be smart and work hard at Juniper marketing because one of these clowns will throw you out or have you pushed out. Be warned!

The revamped website, and recent announcements around simplicity, automation, and self driving networks are all a ploy to create an image of Juniper to be communications company that creates products like Apple. Customers are way smarter than Juniper's marketing group thinks they are. Customers know junk when they see it. Marketing hype is just that and can be recognized a mile away.

But if he flinched, why didn’t he take people out right then? That’s the issue. Rami knows of the nonsense going on ... and does NOTHING about it, which only fuels the dysfunction and sends professionals and performers looking. I actually want Juniper to succeed - but it’s a cluster of idiots promoting and protecting bigger idiots - just can’t get out of its own way. Very sad.

I just don't get the requirement/reason why a bunch of career non-performers get promoted at Juniper to man-management positions without ANY man-management experience! WHY! Based on WHAT?! Some of these Managers and Sr. Managers are total waste of spaces. Why fatten up the deck and fire performing engineers?! This is a tech company, not a political party or the government. People who have hung around for 9-10 years need not be promoted for the time they have put in, they should be promoted based on performance!

Its a disgusting culture which breeds nepotism and a$$-kissing as a way to get forward and frustrate genuine people who deliver. Happy...no ecstatic that I handed in my papers beginning of this month.

VERY relieved to be out of Juniper EMEA! This place is the worst performing geo and culture is toxic!

Echoing the some posters, yeah, I have not been around here for too long, just under 3 years, but I was there when the "headwind" presentation was done with the Trump-like Red hat: "Make EEA Great Again"! I was sitting not far from Rami and actually saw him flinch when that came out on stage. What a joker! Add Jewel in the crown to that and you got a full house of Pan European demolishing unit.

@S7UBrSW-2xwq Working for Juniper is a constant job and career security risk anyway with an incompetent if not impotent management tearing the company down. So what have we got to lose?

In EMEA the leadership and the mid-management quality makes a rotten fish seem fresh. MJ is so busy telling us that he is only about numbers that he seems to have forgotten how to get to those same numbers, i.e., if he ever knew how to get them in the first place. If industry grapevine is to be believed then all he did at Brocade, his previous stint, is cut headcount to balance books, till they ran out of headcount and the company got sold off in bits and pieces with EMEA as the worst functioning area. And guess who Juniper hires after 7 months of search to replace a leader like GA? The same Brocade guy who broke Brocade! VM was the lead decision maker as per his message last year July. Well, VM is no more as well.

Make EMEA great again! Yadda, yadda, yadda!

It might be a job security risk to explain its outcome.

Get real. It’s not a national security risk to let anyone know EVO is the next generation Junos OS based on a linux kernel, as it can be deciphered from this job description.

http://www.landing.co/j/40677-juniper-networks-software-engineer---junos-evo

It was meant to be released YEARS ago.

@S7UBrSW-1lty

I believe you are outside of juniper.

If you are a juniper employee ask your teammates. Everyone would know about it.

What is EVO?

BART is looking to install wifi on their trains and around the stations. I bet you Cisco is the first company that comes to mind and they will buy Cisco wifi gear.

We should be scaling through partners but the woman responsible is a complete idiot and has done nothing productive.

I think Juniper as a whole s***s.

Its not a great place to work.

Agree that benefits are good, work life balance is good, but not doing quality work and not being able to ship products, its bad for the employee.

PLM is always wrong, and they cover up saying the market slipped under us.

What the hell were you hired for? You should understand the market coming in future, not what its now and copying products/features from existing products from competitors.

They blame engineering, that they delivered late. Problem is deadlines are unrealistic and PLM doesn't consider that.

They blame marketing, what if the products are not right? How can they market? How can they sell or convince customers?

PLM screwed up multiple projects, contrail, evo, and next would be azurite.