Sun Microsystems Employee Job Reviews in the United States

"Sun was the best place I've ever worked."

"Great company to work for!!"

What do you like about working at Sun Microsystems?

"The email distribution lists based on areas of work or interest, continued communication on product improvements as well as keeping current on competitor product releases & features."

"I am so sorry Sun was not an outstanding success story! It had all what the user wanted."

What do you like about working at Sun Microsystems?

"The technology that we delivered with our solutions to a happy customer!"

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

"The best of luck. Under Oracle Sun will turn more into a marketing company, so, prepare for that."

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

"Not enough time for mentoring and guiding team members."

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"

"Contract position"

What do you like about working at Sun Microsystems?

"Everything."

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

"Very hard to get in."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Great company to work for."

"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!"

"Sun was simply too big and too rigid to make a change. Glad Oracle bought them."

What do you like about working at Sun Microsystems?

"Field Service work."

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

"Don't even try."

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

"Incompetency of company."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Quit."

"Great place to work"

What do you like about working at Sun Microsystems?

"The culture, and my manager pushing me to exceed"

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

"Depends on what position you go after, but understand the company and be ready to problem solve in the interview"

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

"Managements lack to monetize on great technology"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Create a way to monetize on technologies that make Sun adorned by many in the IT world"

"Would have stayed there until I retired, had they not had the layoff."

"To the point."

What do you like about working at Sun Microsystems?

"The balance of work and social life."

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

"Just be honest and open."

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

"The lack of good management structure."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"They are in the middle of restructuring so I think they are assessing their problems just fine."

What do you like about working at Sun Microsystems?

"Sun Labs was a great place to work with some of the best minds in the industry. This wasn't a pie-in-the-sky operation like other research labs, they developed near term product applicable technologies."

"Best company to work for"

What do you like about working at Sun Microsystems?

"Good compensation and benefit package. Had lots of opportunity for growth and personal development"

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

"Nothing"

"Great company but embattled with competing against Microsoft."

What do you like about working at Sun Microsystems?

"The energy and commitment from the employees were great. They understood the concept of collective intelligence and welcomed employee's inputs and ideas."

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

"You need to be top-notch. They are very selective with there hiring process."

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

"It was too volatile. They didn't know how to compete against the application-set from Microsoft and everyone was worried about being laid-off on Thursday. Thursday was the notification day for termination."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"There seem to be many cults within the company. Too frequently the compete against each other. For example Java Soft was a stand-alone division making great market penetration however, the decision was made that they were too successful and were brought back into the center-line development effort of Sun Microsystems. They should have been left as a business unit with their own traceable revenuies."

"Great company recently purchased by Oracle, another great company."

What do you like about working at Sun Microsystems?

"Great people, great products, visionary led."