Thread regarding Juniper Networks Inc. layoffs

Another quarter, another layoff. Good people getting cut.

It’s August 2nd. Any updates?

Also heard from my management that organizational changes are coming and to expect layoffs this summer; no dates. Speculation is late July early August, but confirmed changes are coming and some groups have been told to prepare for reductions.

I guess no confirmed date, but it is in the works . Heard from multiple sources that big changes are coming.

so when are these rumored layoffs going to actually happen? someone here commented June (nothing happened), so is it August for sure or are these just speculations?

@TM3nZ5F-6akx Agree. What both Arista and Cisco has done during the last few years is identify and cut-off the fat and non-performing political players - they got lean, mean and performing and customers are recognising that. At the same time, at least in EMEAR, Juniper has promoted and celebrated inexperienced, non-performing political fat in management who are trying to manage by fear, threatening to put people on a "firing list" and openly showing bias for a$$-kissers while trying to frustrate and push away real performers. They were allowed to try and build their own fiefdom by Juniper management.

Far cry from Arista and Cisco.

And this is NOT fake news! Its daily business out here.

Juniper's focus on Security and SDN lately just goes to show that it is trying hard to survive. Trying to latch on to anything that sticks. It is sad that a routing company that defined the standard of excellence in that space is about to be extinct. This is what happens when companies rest on their laurels for too long. Juniper is getting beat by Arista, Huawei and of course Cisco. Juniper has zero chance for survival with the current leadership team. Zero.

If the PLMs were unaware of this deal going through at AT&T, thats ebough reason to get rid of them. Come to think of it, may they did know, and that maybe why Juniper is trying so hard to move into the security space.

With Juniper’s biggest customer AT&T exiting the data center/colocation business, it is going to be extremely difficult to sustain any kind of sales or even joint development with AT&T, particularly in DC switching, contrail and other DC related products. It also affects wireline services as this deal also included flexline services which utilized the NFX. Just goes to show that the technologies that JNPR has been focusing on are just not what their biggest customer wanted to bank on. Nice job PLM!!!

Bottom line is this is not good news for Juniper and it will impact sales as well as profits. This time not because of anything wrong that was done by Juniper, but just bad luck.

@1kus, don't try to time the layoff. It is not voluntary layoff so you don't control whether or when it will happen to you. Also your current boss has to be really stupid to not seeing you no longer give a dime about your work, and willing to help you pack with a fat severance check. This is not saying such idiots do not exist in the management team. But if you think about it, your new job probably pays you better. Money-wise, you are likely better off starting new job soon than beating the odds of severance.

Not to mention both Arista and Cisco are embracing new alternatives to BRCM, like a programmable ASIC from a startup called Barefoot Networks. Juniper, meanwhile, still insists on using their own homebrew ASIC and will be left in the dust.

https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/aristas-new-switch-features-barefoots-programmable-tofino-chip/2018/06/

https://www.nextplatform.com/2018/06/20/a-deep-dive-into-ciscos-use-of-merchant-switch-chips/

The obsession on homebrew asic is very hard to reason about. Arista started on BRCM chip around the same time as Juniper. With just BRCM chips, its market cap grew to twice as much as Juniper.

Looks like the fun of homebrew will not stop just where it is today, Fungible is going to bring in their new 'DPU'.

https://insidebigdata.com/2018/02/08/drilling-rigs-big-data-age/

I am very close to resigning in EMEA from a psycho boss - an incompetent, inexperienced political moron dumped on us last year. But now that I have read this thread juts wondering: should I hold on before resigning for another month and see if I get fired and receive some parting money from Juniper ? Not sure if my new employer will want o postpone the date though.

• when the c-suite is unsure which products and solutions must be focused on,

• when engineering cannot deliver ANYTHING on time, or under budget,

• when the marketing teams overrule what the CTO’s office and the PLMs define as our mission and vision for products, solutions and target markets should be

• when marketing and sales cannot agree on what collateral is needed to help open opportunities and close sales, leave alone actally create them or provide whats needed

• when the turnover is high due to layoffs, firings and attrition, but covered up through false reporting and HR scheming

• when we have bet on using our own ASIC technologies, knowing that competing in certain market segments will have to give way to merchant sillicon from BRCM

• when wasting our airtime on pie in the sky topics such as autonomous networks is all that ee hear from meketing

• when we focus our attention on security, security, security or SDN, SDN, SDN, and not on our core strengths, strategic business imperatives, or at least in support of our corporate vision

• we keep investing and sticking money into companies and techmologies that will not pan out

• when we lack the real leadership to deliver on these things or define a clear course of action... To focus on what we can do to be succesful, not what we want to do to feel s-xy

HOW CAN JUNIPER EVER BE SUCCESFUL?

Don't you think we have will have a fighting chance if we address these issues and avoid these stupid layoffs every friggin’ quarter?

Why does not RR and his team of leaders take note and do something about this, instead of running this joint down into the ground?