Sun Microsystems Reviews in Santa Clara, CA

Pros

work from home
work/life balance
lot of new technologies to learn if you care; time will be there

Cons

slow pace
no growth and salary hike

Pros

Flexible work environment, Respect for employees

Cons

improvements needed in Decision Making, Leadership, accountability

Pros

Collective knowledge is amazing, lots of bright people.
As an employee you inherit the aura the company has among technologist

Cons

Lack of clear vision for the company's future and inertia of middle management.

Pros

- Structured organization
- Encourage use of new methodologies
- Encourage work/life balance

Cons

- Poor management
- Need to have focused with active closure on enterprise goals

Advice to Senior Management

Need to have better management in place for productivity.
There should be an continous effort of maintaining standard and work output.

Pros

Friendly environment
Work from home options

Cons

Not much growth path.
Never skip hierarchy.

Advice to Senior Management

NA

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

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

Very flexible, good benefits. Managers were great.

Cons

Upper management was no good.

Advice to Senior Management

Upper management need to be replaced.

Pros

There was a reasonable environment for a junior engineer to get going for a few years of experience. Beyond that, it's a bad place to hang around because of the bad senior management leadership and bad middle management leadership.

Cons

Senior leadership roles tend to reward those who bringing the messages they want to hear to
re-assure themselves that they are seemingly doing the right thing. Middle management leadership roles follow the policy set by the senior management roles. It's like a herd following
a blind lead.

Advice to Senior Management

Stop amusing themselves with the message of their own preference. Talk to people in the
trenches or closer to the trenches to understand the reality so as to readjust their understanding
and their dreams.

Pros

best part is the co workers. great for professional growth

Cons

worst part is the money. not so great for personal bottom line

Advice to Senior Management

business plan