Juniper Networks

Great benefits, 401k matching, relative stability – just make sure you get on the right team, or be prepared to go down with the Titanic.

The company is bleeding talent like it was in the octagon against a titleholder. Clueless middle management. Juniper has lost its edge in every category other than core routing.

Junos has fallen behind in stability, and the “One Junos” idea is a joke, as most platforms are running bastardized trains of NOS. Juniper has lost its automation lead from losing all of its talent and replacing experience with cheap offshoring.

Juniper is also a huge abuser of the H1B program and has sub-100k H1B employees (public record).

Junos and the ancient BSD-centric spaghetti code is a huge Achilles' heel, and so many people left because of the problems it creates.

Any advances have been lipstick on a pig, and Juniper will never be successful without starting from scratch. There’s just too much technical debt with Junos, and it’s time for a replacement.

All of the software engineering teams get an F- in agility, and radical changes are needed to salvage what was once a great company. If talent really mattered, the company would build some dream teams to fix the problems, but they’d just be quashed by the management hierarchy that is so self-congratulatory, yet destined to fail.