Juniper Networks Reviews

Pros

good place to learn and enjoy.

Cons

Too many paralell jobs at times

Advice to Senior Management

resources (man power) are falling short to fulfill the current requirements and also take care of legacy products

Pros

It never really felt like a job.
Colleagues were smart and fun to be around. Plenty of recognition for good performance, best pay in the technology sales industry.
Senior Management was great and listened to what you were concerned about and did their level best to change things for the bestir. Products are second to none, the best engineering minds in the world work here.
Loved it!

Cons

Back end systems and order processing needs updating.

Advice to Senior Management

Hire more Sales People and broaden the territories to allow for lower quotas.

Pros

Its fast paced work place. Great culture and talented people. Opportunities to grow. Innovation and challenging status quo to always do something new.

Cons

Its aggressive resulting in burn outs. Work life balance goes for toss. unequal opportunities of growth across different units. Do or die.

Advice to Senior Management

Need to spend more money on employee development. Keeping tight purse all the time hurts opening opportunities for employees to develop.

Pros

Nothing really unless you do not care much about career and just want to hide in a cubicle firm until they hunt and throw u out, of course you have to deal with ill-mannered clueless managers on a daily basis.

Cons

1. Technology wise India centre is expected to toe line of US office, no clear direction, spread too thin over many technologies , there is always an atmosphere of uncertainity and fear.
2. By there own admission no career growth opportunities unless u have a US patent against your name.
3.No communication , involvement for employees they just want cheap labour to write their lines of code, archaic technologies, process is a hopeless confusion of many names.
4. Too big, clunky , too beaurocratic, thrives in political games.
5. No real appraisal or review process, compensation is solely management discretion.
6. Even director level employees in India are ceremoniouly fired

Advice to Senior Management

Its beyond advice, especially in India

Pros

Flexible work schedules, decent front line management, quality (highly intelligent) employees, excellent benefits, dynamic [but pleasant] work environment, interesting projects, and (at least the desire to produce) quality products.

Cons

Top heavy, siloed management structure. Director-level (and up) positions are unable to understand the everyday needs of their reports because they've become too far removed from how their employees must do their jobs. Very tight schedules. Tools here are a joke.

Advice to Senior Management

Flatten the organization and quit creating additional silos to solve management problems that don't exist. Come up with a better, cohesive, long term vision.

Pros

leader in networking
innvoation
agile, desire to compet and be best

Cons

not scalable
very slow in delivering features

Pros

Great technologies and products
Great people, some of the best and worst I have met in the business

Cons

Massive quality issues
Hire and Fire mentality
Post Sales Support is horrific

Advice to Senior Management

Recognize how much the massive offshoring to India is hurting your business

Pros

Opportunity to work in field that customer asking.

Cons

Competitive. Hard work is given.

Pros

If you have a good boss then Juniper is an amazing place to work. The people at Juniper are intelligent and hard working (usually) and some orgs are amazing. Currently I work for a great org within sales and consider myself lucky since I have a great boss who has hired an amazing team and the sales AMs treat us with a lot of respect and as part of a team.

As in all large companies, it all depends on the specific organization you work for, not the overall company. Luckily I currently work in a great org which goes up to the VP level, and that org is strong up to the VP level. If that changes, I probably will make a change as well.

Cons

If you have a bad boss, which there are many at Juniper since I worked for a few over the years, then Juniper is a horrible place to work due to the massive politics within management which usually won't do anything to get rid of these crap managers (at all levels).

Advice to Senior Management

The running joke at Juniper nowadays is... When a new Director or above position is opened up unless your from IBM or Microsoft (in sales) or Cisco (BUs) you ain't getting the job, and if you do, then you will probably be YAVP (Yet Another VP). How many VPs can a company have, and I thought VPs were supposed to actually have an org to manage, not a couple of token Sr. Directors (their buddies) who may have a token Director or manager, or two... After watching how (little) they produce in the org, I sure wish I had a godfather who took care of me since I sure would like the salary, bonuses, and stock they get for doing what appears to be nothing.

Pros

Knowledge sharing, Innovation, talented employees

Cons

certain Middle management weak and unfocused