Thread regarding Juniper Networks Inc. layoffs

he fundamental problem at Juniper is cohesion

There is a comment on here saying juniper wants to be Enterprise focused and eliminate service Provider focused jobs. IMHO, this would be a horrible move and i hope there is nothing further than the truth. Juniper is, and will always will, cater to Service providers first. The largest customer is a communications SP who spends upwards of $500M per quarter on products and services. All successful products juniper has ever made were targeted to these segments of the market, first. Any residual opportunities to position these products and solutions to large enterprises has always been a welcome benefit, as many Juniper products find themselves into large and some cases even small corporations.

Lately, because marketing resources are limited, and the lack of understanding of the marketing teams, many marketing efforts have focused on Enterprises. This helps to reach new markets with existing product, but as seen so far, jeopardizes the relationship with existing (sales) relationships and partnerships. Marketing does not see this as a problem and the CMO and his leadership team has foolishly led the company astray, while the Product Managers continue their focus on SPs.

There you have it... The fundamental problem at juniper therefore is not a lack of focus. It is a matter of cohesion. There is focus... Product Management on SPs, and Marketing on Enterprise. Yet they are not in sync. RR needs to fix this first. Firing and laying off people is not the only answer. However, hiring a good CMO who will transform Juniper's marketing focus and engage the teams with real leadership and knowledge of target segments is the first step. Hopefully the restructuring in January will address this.

Excellent post by @VWno63Y-vgzc.

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And the best part is that now every company is using Green and talking about Simplicity. Few people have any idea the number of man-hours spent on Engineering. Simplicity. They were actually using it as some batty framework to try to actually manage the company. You can’t make this stuff up.

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Post ID: @7eoe+WsMEhBG

I used to work in WFD. Haven't heard from anyone about layoffs in 2018. Were there layoffs in BRAS group?

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Post ID: @2lfs+WsMEhBG

+1 for constant silent layoffs. Here in Westford we feel it. We’ve lost over half our team, slowly, over the last year. The place is practically abandoned.

Everyone is looking. Everyone is in the dumps. We hear our competitors are flooded with jnpr resumes. This place is depressing.

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Post ID: @2fwg+WsMEhBG

There have been plenty of personnel changes lately. Constant rolling layoffs are quite common these days in all groups.

The loophole of "not required to report less than 50 jobs lost within thirty days, at one physical location" is being exploited to the fullest. Notice the growing number of empty cubes all over Sunnyvale?

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Post ID: @2mag+WsMEhBG

The notion of moving Product Management, and Marketing, under one indivifual (ML), to align their efforts, forcing these organizations to work towards unified goals and adopt common priorities, and most importantly work on shared timelines, has failed. It has proven to be a just another failure.

With the arrogance (and ignorance), of existing leadership in both groups, mediocre mid-level management, and the inability to implement even a few changes to the org-structure, it was highly unlikely this would have succeeded in the first place. The challenge for ML to deal with strong personalities and their blatant lies have now proven this entire excercise to be nothing but a pipe dream.

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Post ID: @2zuw+WsMEhBG

Oh that old thing! That was the marketing program of the day - they’ve switched that up many times since then. Currently they have houses of things like house of Security etc. And let’s not forget the green! Hey they pay an external agency big bucks every time they switch gears - and Sales keeps going down. Anyone see s problem with these Marketing jokers? MM must have pictures on someone to let this guy spend on this nonsense with no return.

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Post ID: @2ape+WsMEhBG

No the fundamental problem at Juniper is Digital Cohesion.

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