Sun Microsystems Reviews

Pros

There were many good and talented people around. Work hours are flexible, though it may depend your manager. With the right group, you get to work with industry leading products.

Cons

The management and company bureaucracy is dense from time to time. I've went through a bunch of lousy managers and directors.

Advice to Senior Management

I thought the staffing of a number of leadership position were wrong, but, what do I know, I was just a minion. I would attribute many failure to those decision.

Pros

Advancement Opportunities
Telecommuting Possibilities
Fairness in Compensation
Great Bonus Plan

Cons

Lack of holding people accountable at times

Advice to Senior Management

I wish Sun had taken bigger staff cuts earlier in existence

Pros

Innovation was key. People was pushed to look for out of the box solutions that would bring value to our customers. It was great while it lasted!

Cons

Senior Management in some cases neglect the changes that the market was demanding. It was not agile enough to adapt to te new requirements.

Pros

innovative spirit was inspiring. employees.

Cons

business operations could have been better managed to improve company performance

Pros

Sun's employees were some of the best I have ever worked for. Sun also encouraged their employees to take initiative and find creative solutions.

Cons

Alas, Sun couldn't get back from the dot.com fall. As great leadership started leaving Sun, the profit margins started dwindling. The decision for the reverse stock split discouraged people from future purchases as they became skeptical of Sun's future.

Pros

The company had a comfortable, laid-back atmosphere and was very welcoming to interns. Compensation has competitive with the best of silicon valley.

Cons

This period was not particularly productive for the company. Fewer products made it to market than should have. Perhaps this was changed by the Oracle buyout.

Advice to Senior Management

There leadership has almost completely changed in the last 18 months. Perspective employees should probably research Oracle's leadership reviews for more information.

Pros

Importance given to Engineers in all aspects
Innovation, new ideas are always welcome from everyone.
Decent pay just over industry standards
Great products
Flexible environment for work / life balance.

Cons

Poor executive management sloppy in execution and being unable to monetize excellent products.
Regular layoffs towards the final years.
Managers getting defensive as they are continuously preparing the "RIF" list.
Non existent bonuses and shares were pretty much worthless. however they made it up a bit with decent salaries.

Pros

Flexible place. People cooperate among teams without rivalry. People working in technical positions are proffesionals with unbelievable knowledge.Great benefits.

Cons

Too many managers in different control roles watching KPIs in trafic lights spreadsheets without connection to reality of everyday support service business.

Advice to Senior Management

More connection with labour level employees who are in touch with customers and partners really doing business and take sugestions to keep positive relationship with customers

Pros

excellent work life balance, working remote, company growth, cool products, cool people, attention to R&D, community conscious, available growth opportunity in some divisions.

Cons

growth opportunity not always present and cycle is slow, objectives not clear, short term and long term goals missing most of the time.

Advice to Senior Management

Communicate the vision with the employees, tell then why what they are doing is important and how they fit in the big picture.

Pros

Very flexible, good benefits. Managers were great.

Cons

Upper management was no good.

Advice to Senior Management

Upper management need to be replaced.