Thread regarding Juniper Networks Inc. layoffs

No long-term vision at Juniper

I see that the general consensus among the Juniper workers on this board and from what I see in the workplace is that anybody who means well for themselves should update their CV and try to find another job due to the deteriorating working conditions at Juniper. As a long-term employee, and as someone who saw much better days for the company, I have to say that I agree entirely with the ones saying: “ get out while u can”.

Working at this company used to mean something. It was a place that relied on vision and innovation, but in the last couple of years, it became a company that is only driven by profit and that operates “quarter to quarter”, without any long-term vision or strategy. That created a situation of constant reorganization, with an uninterested leadership, clueless middle management, and employees in constant fear for their jobs. Juniper is a place that is slowly but surely deteriorating, and falling behind on the market, so my advice would also be to try to find other jobs, cause the effects of these ill practices are yet to kick in.

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@VReo1YE-3wof: Indeed that Juniper doesn't know how to innovate.

The respected CTO may change this though. He's the only shining light that IMHO can push the company to new levels.

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The whole idea of being "pure play, engineering driven company" and relying on custom silicon is so 1990's. PTX might have been an good concept that had execution problems, but QFabric was a born to fail proprietary engineering project that might have been a successful open SDN architecture. EX switching was "me too" when it came out and QFX had few innovations. Juniper switching is mostly for existing routing customers who want a second vendor to Cisco, but Arista has taken much of that market since Juniper doesn't innovate.

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Post ID: @3wof+VReo1YE

Last major products from JNPR were PTX and QFabric. 8 years ago. Risky and innovative for their times, and proven right in the long run to be correct, even if QFabric died a slow death (execution problems not an architecture one).

JNPR hasn't had an innovative product since. Just incremental, risk-averse me-too products. Simply having custom silicon isn't enough anymore.

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