Juniper Networks Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Juniper Networks full-time for more than a year

Pros – Brilliant technologists with leading edge ideas

Cons – Executive leadership is learning how to lead a mid-sized company for the first time, creating company wide turmoil while trying to expand during a rapidly evolving market. Overlapping roles/responsibilities promoted poor mid level management behavior and a lack of trust and partnership across BU's, highlighted by poor execution. Executive leadership lacked an understanding about the key characteristics of a strong leader versus narcissistic manager, creating short term sales, but long term declines across the board..

Advice to Senior Management – Listen to your customers and share holders, dramatic change is needed.....

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Juniper Networks full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Good technology, good compensation, many opportunities to do interesting work, many excellent people.

Cons – Company has had "growing pains" for 5 years--now they are "shrinking pains"--but the pain is the same. Very complex, confusing, decentralized environment. Multiple groups doing the same thing, starting competing initiatives and projects. Extremely inefficient and crazy-making. We had three re-orgs in a year! They hired directors and VPs like crazy last 2 years, now had a big layoff because "too many directors and VPs."
The management has gone from being overoptimistic to hyper-pessimistic, but still cannot seem to set a direction for the company, and is constantly reacting to the latest news on Wall Street. Whatever Cisco did 2 years ago, Juniper will do today--whether it worked or not. Current fad is to outsource every function possible, even when the cost saving is small and disruption huge.
The Finance group literally cannot tell other groups what their budgets are. Weak IT department hinders everything, is well known to be a problem internally. It's embarrassing to work for a networking company that cannot manage to keep its videoconference equipment working.

Advice to Senior Management – You can't outsource everything and expect to maintain quality. Stop doing things just because Cisco does them. Wasn't Juniper founded to do it better than Cisco? And if you keep hiring people from failing companies, guess what you'll get--more failures.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Juniper Networks full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Good OTE Packages (Even if sales never hits on target it looks good on paper). Strong SE organization. Good health insurance.

Cons – Products quality is failing everywhere - JUNOS SRX. Give good OTE packages but then they give high quotas so no one can hit their number and never paid at OTE. Layoffs every quarter but only enough to announce to press about once a year. Upper mgt all comes from NT or ALU and they bring in their buddies to VP positions. They run it exactly like they ran Nortel and ALU. They build new equipment without a customer base then are surprised when it doesn't sell. Turnover is so high and moral is low. In the eight years I have been here I have had seven bosses. No promotions in sales but plenty of demotions. Enterprise changes their go to market strategy about every three months.

Finally they took away all vacation next year!! You can ask your boss if you can take a vacation day but if he says no, you are out of luck.

Advice to Senior Management – Stop bringing in NT and ALU executives unless you are trying to end up like both of those companies (bankrupt or stock under $1). If that is the plan then keep up the good work you are doing great.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Juniper Networks full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – There are a lot of great people at Juniper. If you can get them comfortable to be open with you, they are very sharp and understand technology and business very well.

Cons – Unfortunately, Juniper has developed a command and control culture that will not allow outside opinions. You do what you're told here and they don't want to be confused by alternative opinions. They don't have enough detailed understanding about how the business is run at the senior levels to understand the impact of their decisions

Advice to Senior Management – I would strongly recommend that senior leadership get an understanding of what their people have to do to sell, support, and build products. The infrastructure is horrible and there are no rules. We need accountability at every level and it seems that there is none.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Juniper Networks

Pros – Benefits - 401K match, insurance, ESPP

Cons – More politics than the white house. Obama would be proud.
No Innovation, designs are just itterative
Culture makes anybody who hasn't worked there 6+ years feel like an outsider
Stock Options or lack thereof

Everything else

Advice to Senior Management – Get out of the Ivory Tower and recognize the talented employees before they are stiffled by the long timers

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Juniper Networks

Pros – Decent cafeteria and nice campus. Decent benefits. Many nice people in the rank-and-file. Community-oriented projects like giving school supplies for children.

Cons – Terrible management. The management has one goal only: their own advancement. The constant "re-orgs" are just a way of shuffling people around to get them raises. Ditto with the endless "initiatives" and "committees." Meanwhile, the folks actually trying to produce something are squeezed more and more to wring the last bit of effort out of them. Every department that actually produces something is under-staffed while the management ranks swell ever-larger.
Dilbertian politics devalue any real contribution and shower value on flattery and game-playing.

Advice to Senior Management – Wake up! Your "initiatives" are manned by management that seeks only its own bonuses and advancement. Your "talent matters" system is a joke. Your Human Resources is disinterested and un-helpful. Juniper customers are big, but the service Juniper can supply with under-funded, under-valued, and malcontent workers, will frustrate even the biggest.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Juniper Networks

Pros – I joined as it was a growing company making leaps and bounds in the networking space and promised of growth and opportunities and I wanted to make some changes in my career to get that next level of growth and leadership. The company is solid in terms of the products that get to market - a true talent treasure trove with awesome innovative and great products and services.

Cons – This is specific to IT at Juniper Networks - but overall - as in any company - IT is considered a cost center and also with the inability to move at the speed of business - also one of the least funded. While this is not particular to Juniper, Senior management's lack of leadership, vision, strategy or the ability to highlight and promote to get senior exec buy-in - there is no way we can succeed. Additionally for the last 2 years - IT has become more of a power game - who has the largest teams, who gets to push around whom - rather than the focus on what we can do to improve Juniper's operational capabilities and capacities. Employees are the least valuable resource - more like a sweat shop than a company that values talent.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Juniper Networks

Pros – seems to have good technical foundation laid down by the early engineers, some of them are still with the company.

Cons – process and tools are far from good, a lot of politics, just about everywhere.
the hierarchy is to the point of absurd level.

promotion are mostly favoritism and are handed to those with relationship.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Juniper Networks

Pros – Good technology to work for in n/w

Cons – Bad pay for what we work for

Advice to Senior Management – correct it or else you will suffer

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Juniper Networks

Pros – *used to be good working culture but that had change quickly
*good product and technology focus
*some innovation

Cons – *Probably the worst IT management team ever
*Only hired who they know
*Lack of career management within the IT department
*No grow path
*Anyone wanted to join Juniper IT dept, should think twice.

Advice to Senior Management – *Start treating people with respect and dignity
*Show career path and better communication
*Stop creating position, so you can bring in your own troop.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend