Sun Microsystems Reviews in Bangalore, India Area

Pros

> Genuine respect for employees
> Focussed roles - Developers only develop features, they don't fix customer bugs. Sustenance takes care of that.
> Incredible technologies - way too much to learn
> Extremely capable senior management
> Never pressured for time, and mentored well

Cons

> Company needed more focus on how to earn money.

Advice to Senior Management

I wish Sun till existed and wasn't sold away. I hope the Sun culture is still preserved after the transition to Oracle.

Pros

Freedom to explore technologies
Not much work pressure in my team
Travel Opportunities
Feel good factor
Good friends at workplace

Cons

Budget allocated for in inftastrcutre needs better analysis..Some of the superiors are shortsighted and they only look at immediate needs.Otherwise its a great place to work

Advice to Senior Management

Budget allocated for in inftastrcutre needs better analysis..Some of the superiors are shortsighted and they only look at immediate needs.Otherwise its a great place to work...

Pros

good and very technical and they have brilliant people mostly from bits pilani and they work in cool technologies all

Cons

very technical and they have brilliant people mostly from bits pilani and they work in cool technologies all and good

Advice to Senior Management

good and technical and they have brilliant people mostly from bits pilani and they work in cool technologies all very

Pros

Exceptionally Talented people
Good Flexible work culture
Competitive Salary

Cons

Poor business decisions
Oracle takeover may improve business decisions but may also affect other good things

Advice to Senior Management

Try to retain the talent which made the brand "Sun Microsystems"
Try to clear doubts and improve communication channels to retain good talent and motivate employees

Pros

Freedom to innovate and there is culture of innovation

Cons

Focus on business aspect is not good

Advice to Senior Management

Should be more aggressive and focussed on business

Pros

Work culture, transparancy, Technology, benifits

Cons

Growth, Marketing Strategy is poor

Advice to Senior Management

Aggressive in meeting the target reveniew on every quarter, charge for the software, should change from university mind set to professional way of execution.

Pros

The work culture can be pretty casual and open. Hours are flexible.

Cons

Managers can be tyrannic, ad-hoc, and downright prejudiced/ hostile. There are no internal checks and balances to avoid this. You are fine so long as you are in the good books of your manager. Performance and personal achievements are secondary.

Advice to Senior Management

There is no leadership any more. Sunset.

Pros

Highly technical environment, Work life balance, excellent learning opportunity, great team work, respect to individual from management, technical expertise is appreciated, very open and transparent communication from top management, proud to be part of such a great company

Cons

lack of commercial success and revenue is disappointing, unfortunate that a great company with such technical depth is not able to cash in on its strength, my personal feeling is that the company is doing too much of charity (open source) without any significant gains (except for great PR)

Advice to Senior Management

Sharp focus on profit, Monetize great technologies created by SUN, Leave the kick-the-butt attitude and embrace partner and profit attitude

Pros

One of the best reasons is open work culture. Excellent techncail managers. Innovative products every 6 months.. Open source areas provide opuurtunites to great work

Cons

No downsides.. Company should recruit good marketting talent to go head in the market.

Advice to Senior Management

Dont make acquisitions so often.

Pros

Work Environment is good. You have a lot of flexibility. Easier to balance work and personal life.
The team is really good and there is a good level of interaction between team mambers.

Cons

As far as I know they are not trying to come up wid new technology and just relying on the good old
technologies. I wud say its better they start investing in new technologies to come up as a market keader.

Advice to Senior Management

I am not interested to dwell on that.