Juniper Networks Employee Review

Current Employee – been working at Juniper Networks

Pros – lots of new products
some real smart co-workers
friendly environment amongst peers
the company is very profitable

Cons – work/life balance is way out of whack
under staffed yet lots of redundancy functions between groups
back end systems and support are in disarray
everything seems to become a "fire drill"
more VPs and management layers than a company 5 times our size
lots of "fits and starts"

Advice to Senior Management – Juniper seems all geared up for the sales pitch but we cannot seem to execute very well afterwards. At this point we need to look at both winning and keeping customers. "Mission 10" is a desire and not a business plan. Develop some long term business goals, a business plan to achieve them and stop this short term, reactionary behavior. Like laying folks off one quarter only to rehire the next quarter. That just proves we're not a mature business organization and still operate day to day (like 12 year old children). Give up on the idea that IBM will just buy us.