Sun Microsystems Reviews

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

Pros – Ability to work from home or telecommute

Cons – Many systems still use Solaris, which for the most part is extremely dated

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Sun Microsystems

Pros – Great people, flexible working conditions, creative and innovate technologies and technologists, thought leaders, competitive pay and benefits, great facilities & working environments

Cons – The thing that killed Sun was that they forgot that they were a business and not a cause. Thought leadership is great unless all you do is create awareness and opportunity for your competitors to out execute. Too many reorgs.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Sun Microsystems

Pros – great benefits
understanding management
flexible hours
WFH support
close door office

Cons – incompetent management styles
not good people management skills

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Sun Microsystems

Pros – Good work life balance. Great people.

Cons – Leadership is inefficient. Does not support innovation - doing things the same way.

Advice to Senior Management – Get rid of inept leaders

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

Current Employee – been working at Sun Microsystems

Pros – Large corporation that has many opportunities

Cons – Highly political environment where brown nosing takes precedence over skills

Advice to Senior Management – Ease up and you'll get more production out of your employees

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Sun Microsystems

Pros – Good Environment, opportunity to work with other departments, partners and vendors

Cons – No Opportunity to grow or get promoted

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Sun Microsystems

Pros – Sun was a great company to work for, very smart colleagues, great campus, good benefits. Very interesting work.

Cons – Too much time sepnt on preparing for management so called "fire-drills".

Advice to Senior Management – Too many layers. Less time spent on making presentations and in attending meetings would have lead to more efficiency.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Sun Microsystems

Pros – The good people were great and professional.

Cons – At the end the established management just circled the wagons and looked out for themselves.

Advice to Senior Management – Work on recognizing talent. There was a lot there when I left.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Sun Microsystems

Pros – innovation, transparency, smart people, incredible vision

Cons – sr management in an echo chamber, smart people not promoted

Advice to Senior Management – learn to listen instead of talk

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend