Sun Microsystems Reviews

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

Pros – Vision, Focus, Execution, Culture, Passion and innovation

Cons – Top leadership lasted too long and were very resistant to change

Advice to Senior Management – Too late...

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 – . Deeply intellectual and very engineering-oriented culture
. Valued innovation
. Challenging technical problems to work on
. Respect for the individual

Cons – . Loose management
. Some lack of strategic and marketing clarity
. Occasional policy of "drift"

Advice to Senior Management – . Tighten management, while not losing the benefits of engineering satisfaction
. Clarify strategic focus and long-term vision
. Don't drift
. Continue to respect the individual contributor and continue to encourage innovation

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Sun Microsystems as an intern for less than a year

Pros – Nice working enviroment. Lot of activities to enjoy!

Cons – Since Oracle bought this company, many people were fired.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

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

Pros – good company to work for

Cons – sun mgmt not able to monitise

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Sun Microsystems as a contractor for less than a year

Pros – company take care of every employee and all employee have satisfaction in their work

Cons – job timings they should change the timings

Advice to Senior Management – change the timings

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Sun Microsystems

Pros – High caliber, well educated, and experienced people
Could worked from any site of the campus

Cons – As part of working for a big company, you will do a narrowed specified task compared to a small company where you may be involved in various tasks.

Advice to Senior Management – Provide more opportunities for career development

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Sun Microsystems

Pros – I loved working at Sun, was always proud to call myself a Sun employee. Liked all of the projects I worked on, and got along with all of the people I worked with. Had good friends there, many of whom I stay in touch with.

Cons – Oracle took over and there was no way I wanted to be a part of that. Many of us heard about how Oracle treated their employees. Half of the people on my previous, and then current, teams left before the acquisition was finalized.

Advice to Senior Management – My advice to the new management at Sun/Oracle is this: respect your employees, compensate them competitively, recognize good work, and above all show that you appreciate them. No self-respecting person really wants to work there.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Sun Microsystems

Pros – The team of people are amazing and there was very strong team collaboration.

Cons – Heavy workloads as the company continued to downsize

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Sun Microsystems

Pros – Good salary, felt like a part of the company, great community to work with, very smart and open coworkers, lots of opportunity to learn.

Cons – Senior management led the company into the ground. Bad stock.

Advice to Senior Management – Should have developed x86 Solaris sooner. Should have charged for service support.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Sun Microsystems

Pros – Collective knowledge is amazing, lots of bright people.
As an employee you inherit the aura the company has among technologist

Cons – Lack of clear vision for the company's future and inertia of middle management.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend