Sun Microsystems Reviews

Pros

Flexibile work arrangement
Friendly environment, most people are easy to work with
Casual culture

Cons

Constraints in certain technology adoption/usage
Senior Management may not have a clear direction where to steer the company

Pros

Good salary, felt like a part of the company, great community to work with, very smart and open coworkers, lots of opportunity to learn.

Cons

Senior management led the company into the ground. Bad stock.

Advice to Senior Management

Should have developed x86 Solaris sooner. Should have charged for service support.

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

allowed to drive project to resolution

Cons

bad follow through on business leadership

Pros

- Strong R&D
- Flexible in working with customers
- Understood the hardware business

Cons

- Got away from core competencies
- Got too much cost in the supply chain
- Focused too much on software and not enough on hardware

Advice to Senior Management

- Should have watched what was going on in the rest of the industry and monetized the product versus going open source
- Overlay was not held accountable for their specialties

Pros

Good Products
Some good Sales

Cons

Politics
Ask for permision rather than get the job done
lack of leadership
Too much mid level managment

Pros

Great pay, good people, fun

Cons

No opportunities for growth after 18 months there

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

Pride of working for innovative company
Most everyone working there was smart, motivated, and competent
Good cooperation within BU
I enjoyed going to work each day. Coworkers worked well together and solved problems and created with minimal friction, but for some reason the VP level management never was able to stay organized, focused, and on track with a plan.
Over the years, as new talent was hired, promotions of newer high performers was discouraged in favor of long term employees resulting in an inflexible upper management group that was unable to adapt and learn as the company grew.

Cons

Never ending politics at the highest management levels
Unclear direction and a desire to do it all rather than make management prioritization
I actually had a project plan with every item marked critical-do first

Pros

compensation and benefits, exceptionally good work/life balance

Cons

focus on revenue not profits. rifs were always bottom up. management never changed, was shielded by layoffs.