Sun Microsystems Employee Job Reviews in the United States

What do you like about working at Sun Microsystems?

"Nice people to work with. Friendly environment. I like the office with doors. Flexible hours."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"A nice company to work with."

What don't you like about working at Sun Microsystems?

"Not much career training opportunities."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Keep the talented engineers. Be business smart and make more money for the company."

"A great place at one time, no longer true today"

What do you like about working at Sun Microsystems?

"Creative smart people, industry leader"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"They will all be replaced by Oracle soon"

"Great projects."

"I loved Sun."

What do you like about working at Sun Microsystems?

"During the 1990s this was the place to work. Energy level of employees was fantastic. Products were top notch."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Due to their purchase by Oracle I would not recomment working at Sun."

What don't you like about working at Sun Microsystems?

"Promotion crieteria was not well defined."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Focus on reliability of the high end hardware and Solaris rather than commodity producsts"

"Sun is a top place to work."

What do you like about working at Sun Microsystems?

"Highly technical, highly innovative, and highly employee focused."

"concise"

What do you like about working at Sun Microsystems?

"Challenging environment. Flexible work hours. Self improvement through training courses always encouraged."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Expect a long day. I had to interview with about 13 people sometimes 4 at a time."

What don't you like about working at Sun Microsystems?

"Poor management along with some inept employees."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Learn to manage."

"experience evaluation working at Sun which will be useful for current and to-be employee"

What do you like about working at Sun Microsystems?

"Flexibility, Power Delegation, Challenging, many options to grow yourself, great place to work and learn."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"You need to be willing to work really hard and enjoy your work. You also need to know what you are doing and willing to learn as you go."

What don't you like about working at Sun Microsystems?

"Over all I like about working at Sun."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Sun as a company is great. Sometimes the management needs to work with their co-workers and customers to find out the most current requirements to stay competitive in the market."

"Great place to work."

"A waist of time!"

What do you like about working at Sun Microsystems?

"Flexiable hours"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"You can do better!!"

What don't you like about working at Sun Microsystems?

"The brown nose farts that can't there job!"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Retire!"

"I worked there at Sun's peak. Very exciting times"

What do you like about working at Sun Microsystems?

"I made the final decisions on User Interface Issues"

What don't you like about working at Sun Microsystems?

"Always short on resources"

What do you like about working at Sun Microsystems?

"It was the place to be in the heady .com days!"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"complex, but very rewarding"

What don't you like about working at Sun Microsystems?

"The complexity of all of their solutions was daunting to the best of us"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"matrix organizations make it hard to hold people individually accountable"

"It was a nice work experience to be at Sun."

What do you like about working at Sun Microsystems?

"It was a good place to be at, with a lot of smart people around, a place one could learn a lot."

What don't you like about working at Sun Microsystems?

"That it didn't materialize great potential of Java technology."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"To be more tight to the right technical people, who know better the technology needs and possibilities, in order to avoid decisions which waste that potential and rather drive the overall strategy in right direction on time."

"Great place to work"

What do you like about working at Sun Microsystems?

"I enjoyed the direct contact with the customers"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"It is a great comapny to work fo."

What don't you like about working at Sun Microsystems?

"Jobs being consolidated to one loacation in Colorado."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"To take in to consideration of the great people to be lost when these transitions take place"

"A very employee oriented company that was a great to place to learn and grow as a professional."

What do you like about working at Sun Microsystems?

"I found people at Sun to be intelligent and creative. They were also on the cutting edge of technology and open standards with a passion for the work."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"A great to place to work if you find the right position."

What don't you like about working at Sun Microsystems?

"As a member of professional services I found the extensive travel to be difficult."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Management had difficulty sticking to business plan and was often re-organizing professional services which unnecessarily disrupted the business."