Sun Microsystems Reviews

Pros

That's a wonderful place for engineer work!

Cons

executive is not good enough.

Advice to Senior Management

To get better business style for product.

Pros

Wealth of resources, telecommuting and flex office policy means you can work from anywhere, lots of opportunities for learning and taking on extra responsibilities.

Cons

The resources are burdened with bureaucracy, because so many people telecommute, the buildings feel ghostly and you never know where people are on a given day.

Advice to Senior Management

Not sure how things have changed since the Oracle acquisition, but quicker turn around times for inter department tasks would have been helpful.

Pros

Flexible work environment, Respect for employees

Cons

improvements needed in Decision Making, Leadership, accountability

Pros

independence and freedom to innovate

Cons

hard decision making when it come to direction

Advice to Senior Management

make the decision quickly and move on

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

-Good environment
-good place to work
-good salary
-good roles
-good jobs
-good stuff
-good thing
-good people
-good team

Cons

-some of the down sides to working for sun microsystems was that it was a very harsh learning curve

Advice to Senior Management

some of the advice or feedback to the leadership at sun microsystems would be to give your employees a bit more of a learning curve.

Pros

Great technology. Great benefits.
A great place to learn state of the art technologies and techniques.

Cons

Small pawn in a lrge empire. Work often went unnoticed. There is a lot of excess brainpower walking the halls in search of a project to work on. Maybe too much time between projects because departments have too rigid boundaries.

Advice to Senior Management

Create more cross pollination of projects, technology and ideas.

Pros

work from home
work/life balance
lot of new technologies to learn if you care; time will be there

Cons

slow pace
no growth and salary hike

Pros

1. Amazing technology
2. Freedom for work
3. Higher Management are easily accessible

Cons

1. Sold out
2. Bad top management

Advice to Senior Management

Hire few grads from HBS and Wharton to run its business.

Pros

Compensation very good and good growth opportunity

Cons

Exec mgmt vision and ability

Advice to Senior Management

Can't make money without monitizing technology