Juniper Networks reviews

Very Bad code base ------------------------ This is code written with 20+ years of history. Same code base, patch works, reworks, one junos supporting all platforms without any modern development practices (not even a single automated unit test, only system level regression tests which barely cover enough scenarios and hardly catch anything more granular than feature din't work), because of one junos supporting all platforms code base is extremely complex, and any change will have too many unforseen/unknown side effects. Bad people policies ----------------------- No earned or defined PTOs. They claim(BS) during offer they are progressive and there are no limits on PTO's and you can take as many as you want. In reality two things happen due to unlimited PTO 1. You lost ability to en cash pay if you don't take enough leaves. 2. Every leave is a haggle with u'r manager. Most often managers will not give 15-20 leaves per year which was what it used to be before the policy. If it was truly positive intention, they could publish average number of leaves a engineer is taking company wide/per manager or say every engineer must take or manager must ensure 18 leaves per year. No. They don't do such things, 2-face. Take maternity or paternity leave, assume u'r bonus is 0. Doesn't policy from higher ups should avoid this? Again paternity leave is a haggle. No diversity ------------- Its a very indian, chinese dominant company. In engineering >70%. Majority of managers are Indian. Hardly any women as expectation to work late nights, weekends is very high. Bad technical decisions ----------------------------- It takes years to do any decent size project, due to extremely complicated code base. Couldn't catch up with arista or at the least learn or copy from best practices even though it happened right infront of juniper. Routing BU ---------------- Makes most of the cash. Good market share ISP, Enterprise market. Only reason still company is around. Switching BU --------------- Stay away. Very bad Software development Sr.Director manages this team. Poor work culture. No idea about what a modern data center needs are. Security BU ------------- Stay away. Constant layoffs. Doesn't make much revenue. Palo alto networks etc will ensure this BU doesn't survive for long.

Unfortunately Juniper's products have become a complete commodity to the core customers. The company is trying to steer into a software business, but this will take time and lots of pressure from 'the street'. The company goes through a destructive cycle of layoffs every 6 months, somehow always impacting the working bees instead of the upper management groups. As in any company, politics are a dominant factor in who stays and who goes, so if you join, play the game or get ready to become irrelevant. The security BU has completely destroyed what was once a great set of solutions and technology. The exodus of thought leaders is very telling. Since Rami took the CEO seat, things got better, but maybe be is too late to correct direction. Increasing competition from SDN players, and development of in-house solutions from the core customer base paints a grim outlook. The attrition and continuous rotation of marketing strategy and confusing messaging to the customers don't seem to help either.