Sun Microsystems Reviews

I worked at Sun Microsystems full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Good place o work in a private offcie

Cons – company lack of foreseeing the future of company products

Advice to Senior Management – do not stick products in a narrow market

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Sun Microsystems full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Pleasant, good benefits. Great campus.

Cons – Not very profitable. Slow to see biz trends.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Sun Microsystems full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Cooperation and passion of other employees. Product set and engineering. Ability to move around the company

Cons – Poor upper management. Inability to change business model over time. Missed monetizing assets.

Advice to Senior Management – look outside the company for new and better talent

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

I worked at Sun Microsystems full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Some of the most talented people you will ever work with

Cons – No clear direction on business.

Advice to Senior Management – Be Clear and be honest

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I have 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

I have been working at Sun Microsystems full-time for more than a year

Pros – Great engineers with good ideas

Cons – Sinking Sales and stifling bureaucracy

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

I worked at Sun Microsystems full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Very nice to engineers. flexible. innovative. good compensation.

Cons – bad upper management. don't understand software as a business

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

I worked at Sun Microsystems as an intern for more than a year

Pros – Junior employees given advanced responsibilities
Most business units staffed by thought-leaders in their verticals
Employees given carte blanche to pursue their own initiatives
Widespread adoption of work from home
Most business units able to iterate rapidly

Cons – Highly political corporate culture with little meritocracy despite plethora of talent
Little stability with most employees more preoccupied with job security than their actual job
Bias towards engineering has never been married to successful sales execution
Lack of brand awareness in SMB/SME/LE environments
Executive leadership apparently bent on running company into the ground

Advice to Senior Management – Quit and hand the reins over to people that know what they're doing

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I worked at Sun Microsystems full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Talented people.
Incredible products.
Loved the culture.

Cons – Management changed direction every year.

Advice to Senior Management – Chart a course and follow it through with metrics.

I worked at Sun Microsystems full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – - The opportunity to work with capable, creative professionals.
- Learning new skills.
- Doing work on a large scale, involving global communities and thousands of end user customers.
- Challenging, interesting work.

Cons – - Employee ranking system on a curve - couldn't (per the ranking sytem) have all excellent or all poor workers in a group.
- Complacency by some employees resulting in decreased productivity, morale.
- Inexperienced senior management after Scott McNealy was no longer at the reins. Management by whim in some cases. Haven't worked there since oracle purchased the company.

Advice to Senior Management – Manage to a greater degree based on results and customer feedback.

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