Juniper Networks

• Very deep engineering talent pool.
• Solid compensation.
• Best-in-class silicon, solid, long-time weathered software.
• Excellent culture, encouraging open challenging of ideas while keeping to a civilized tone. Easy to get help and attention, even from experienced hands.
• Probably the best company in the Valley in terms of distributed infrastructure and remote work.
• Very solid India team.
• Good size trade-off between a stuck-in-the-mud giant and a no-resources-hair-on-fire startup. It's possible to make one's impact felt while not being charged with solving all the world's problems every day.

Deep engineering culture emphasizes quality and real-working-stuff over the newest fluff. This leads to a fairly slow response to many fads, but new profitable directions as well.

Unless you have a large amount of experience and scar tissue, prepare to camp for quite a long time before you move up the engineering ladder. However, in the meantime, you will be learning every day from the helpful, old hands.

Limited upside due to a focus on a technical field that is not growing fast anymore. Networking is becoming more and more "plumbing" while the services on top are the highly profitable segment for the moment.

We could benefit from younger blood with skills in newer software development methodologies, albeit obviously they are difficult to attract, preferring the Web 2.0 type of shops.