Sun Microsystems Reviews

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

Current Employee – been working at Sun Microsystems

Pros – -The people I was working with were great.
-Provided me with a lot of valuable info
-Was able to maintain a number of connections during my time working

Cons – - Day to day activities get boring at times.
- Work can become repetitive and sometimes too mundane for my taste

Advice to Senior Management – - Create a better work variety for employees and increase bonuses
- Introduce some new techniques in implementing data into the system

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Sun Microsystems

Pros – pay is above average and people are very friendly.

Cons – not alot of postion in management

Advice to Senior Management – smart people.

Former Employee – worked at Sun Microsystems

Pros – No brainwash, no cubicles, engineering centered overall.

Cons – Sometimes it can be really slow.

Advice to Senior Management – Way to go.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Sun Microsystems

Pros – Looks good on a resume.
Great rank and file with a very high intelligence level and a lot of drive.
Engineering staff at the contributor level is as good as it gets.

Cons – Pay and promotion have nothing to do with your achievement and contribution and are based on ones loyalty and servitude to your / upper management, whose motivation is based solely on their own advancement and power. Of course there is some level of that in "every" organization...at least at the location I was at for seven years, it is detrimental to the operations when the good ol' boys and girls network is the only way to advance.

Advice to Senior Management – Larry taking over was probably the best thing that could have happened, but a good thorough house cleaning from mid-level on up is in order.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Sun Microsystems

Pros – Great for engineering, good people. Very open work environment and good work and family balance. They have good perks like ESPP, 401k, health insurance.

Cons – Senior management seemed to have very little insight on how to run the business aspects of the company. Missed many golden opportunities.

Advice to Senior Management – Keep some perspective on the business side of things. Keep track of chanign trends in the industry. Do not micro manage.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Sun Microsystems

Pros – Flexible work environment, Respect for employees

Cons – improvements needed in Decision Making, Leadership, accountability

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Sun Microsystems

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

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Sun Microsystems

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.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Sun Microsystems

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.