Sun Microsystems Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Sun Microsystems full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Smart and motivated team, good IT management, good benefits, Work from Home,

Cons – outsourced application support model is not agile and increases time to delivery, no sabbatical for long term employees, vision for company not consistently communicated, travel limits due to cost constraints, uncertain future for company as it was acquired by Oracle

Advice to Senior Management – don't out source core knowledge of apps

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Sun Microsystems full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Sun offered developers and engineering staff independence, a creative environment, intelligent colleagues, access to high-end technology, and a great campus and working environment. There was a real commitment to quality software design.

Cons – The development process was often driven by marketing and engineering managers working at cross-purposes to one another. There was little support or fulfillment working on products that got cancelled. Ultimately it burned people out.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Sun Microsystems full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Sun was a great place to work in it's hey day. Great benefits, lots of team building and the all hands were always something special. They spared no expense, with guest speakers such as Dana Carvey.

Cons – Hard to get promoted from within as an Admin.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Sun Microsystems full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Smart people, latitude to do great things, flexible work environment, collaborative culture (for the most part). Scott and Ed were great leaders, JS was not!

Cons – Politics abounded. Jonathan Schwartz drove the company into the ground all by himself and fired anyone who disagreed with him. CMO was a joke and just sucked up to management rather than lead a marketing function.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Sun Microsystems full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Love working on various equipment

Cons – Lack of parts and distance is too great to drive

Advice to Senior Management – Get rid of the middle management

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Sun Microsystems full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Ethics, hardware chops, java engineers

Cons – Inability to convert the corp. DNA from hardware to a (profitable) software company. Or simply ran out of time. Bad acquisition strategy.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Sun Microsystems full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Open, innovative, communicative, rewarding company. Many products currently used by the IT global community were originated at sun, java and Solaris just to name a few

Cons – Sun had to do much more on the long term viability and unfortunately failed in doing so

Advice to Senior Management – Now part of Oracle, Oracle management knows very well how to drive their business. Sun has great assets, mainly people. Keeping these people will help Oracle to keep sun customers and to actually gain more customers.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Sun Microsystems

Pros – Innovative, pleasant place to work.

Cons – They believe their own hype

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Sun Microsystems full-time for more than a year

Pros – Company was full of people who wanted to do the right thing.

Cons – Company was acquired by Oracle.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Sun Microsystems full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Big Vision
Innovation
Terrific people
Great customers
Global sales theatre
Many opportunities for advancement

Cons – BoD Negligence
Short attention span of management

Advice to Senior Management – Needed to place greater value on business application of tech than pure technology

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company