Juniper Networks Reviews

Pros

Great place to get experience and nice people to work with. Great people in a very respectful and friendly atmosphere.

Cons

Juniper does not compensate at the level of the work that is typically performed. No growth path in many organizations which provide low morale in some cases

Advice to Senior Management

Start to empower people closer to the ground, focus more on teams and less on individuals.Don't make it so difficult to understand what we are positioning

Pros

- Very talented coworkers to learn from
- Very supportive managers
- Engineering centric (although quality is falling)
- Very good brand name to have on your resume

Cons

- Lots of friction between campuses as we grow
- Most new hiring shifted to India due to cost. Unfortunately, the quality fell to meet the headcount growth targets. More and more clueless coworkers and snake oil improvements getting pushed thru, sometimes ending in disaster.
- Talented engineers are spread too thin between the new markets we're pursuing. Teams on established markets getting hollowed out, becoming stagnant and seeing a fall in engineering quality. This have not gone unnoticed by customers. Management responded by pushing engineers harder. Stress level is very high for those who stays.
- Explosive growth of Dilbertian policies driving teams to spend more time throwing problems around and blaming each other than solving the actual problems.
- Frequent re-orgs that got undone in a few months.

Advice to Senior Management

The Dilbertian policies might be unavoidable for a large company. But engineering quality and the engineering-centric culture must be maintained if we want customers to stay.

Pros

Juniper is heading into a period of transformation and this transformation will lead to a dynamic environment which can create opportunities

Cons

Juniper is trying to become a large company and I am not quite sure they have the leadership to complete the journey. The company is very corporate HQ centered which leaves few opportunities for individuals located in it's global sites.

Advice to Senior Management

Extend your reach. For Juniper to be a global company, it must be able to operate and manage with a leaders located globally.

Pros

Company is successful and has good technology.
Compensation is good.

Cons

Bad work/life balance. Drive people into the ground (specifc to group I work in)

Pros

Working on advanced product. Good place to learn.

Cons

Too many.
Leadship is not strong.
Process not good.
Environment not like a good company.

Advice to Senior Management

Think of what Juniper wants you to do, do something professional.

Pros

Recognizes the employees well. Work atmosphere and the work life balance is also good. Compensation is also among the best in market.

Cons

As the company grows, need to ensure that this employee relationships are well maintained.

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

Pros

Great benefits, relaxed environment, on the cutting edge of technology so you will always learn the newest things in the market.

Cons

As the company is getting bigger, politics plays big parts.

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.

Pros

Company in principle, is a good place to work. It is still a very nimble player and has lot of opportunity to grow, while being a fairly stable place to work, where you don't have to worry about losing the job because of a bad quarter.

Cons

Management starting from first level all the way to executives seem to be self-serving, with no interest to solve some of the issues that are dogging the company. Repeated mentioning of issues to management falls into deaf ears. Company has had some 15+ reorgs in last 5 years and most of them if not all have been geared towards promoting someone in the guise of streamlining. They do things, then undo the same things all the in the name of reorgs. Upper management really blind to the real issues that are haunting the company and use random methods to fix them. Lot of dilbertian style management cliches floated around.

Advice to Senior Management

Wake up before it's too late. You are not that great that you can rest on your laurels. It won't be too long before people look at juniper as a bad quality products if you continue this path. Promote competency and give people a reason to feel proud of their work.