Sun Microsystems Employee Job Reviews in the United States

What do you like about working at Sun Microsystems?

"I enjoyed working with people in finance to develop web applications to meet the needs of the department."

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

"They downsized tremendously even after I was let go, as many of the departments in the organization were redundant."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I enjoyed working for Sun and performing the job tasks that I have and understand the reason for the downsizing."

"Great projects."

"Excellent Technology but management lost its way."

What do you like about working at Sun Microsystems?

"The culture, the technology the customers, and the people."

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

"Politics, lack of executive"

"Techies promoted into management-- recipe for disaster"

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

"Too techie- oriented. Engineers promoted into management who have no clue how to run things."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Get management training. Give up the fantasy of multitasking, and stop doing email during meetings and pay effing attention!"

"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"

"Good company but not profitable."

"Good when the company was doing good....very bad when thing went south"

What do you like about working at Sun Microsystems?

"Flexible work environment"

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

"Good place to work if your on the right program."

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

"No game plan! There was absolutely no road map for the future."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Get your hand dirty and know what happening with the company and the companies you purchase."

"Gained tremendouse experience."

"I wish we were still StorageTek is was a GREAT Co."

What do you like about working at Sun Microsystems?

"I love the people I work with."

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

"Micro- management of everything we do."

"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."

What do you like about working at Sun Microsystems?

"Great place to work, had a work from home program"

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

"None, being bought by Oracle"

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

"Poor Upper Management caused losing money"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Should have resigned last year to bring in a team that would have made adjustments to save corp"

"direct andto he point"

What do you like about working at Sun Microsystems?

"Lots of room for advancement"

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

"A career that will make you a professional"

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

"I wish I wasn't caught in reduction in force"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Look at the resources that were assets to selling equipment in specific accounts"

"Avoid Sun Microsystems until the Oracle acquisition occurs."

What do you like about working at Sun Microsystems?

"Good smart people from mid- to lower- ranks"

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

"Ask a lot of questions."

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

"Sr. Management gross missteps. Job instability."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Beyond repair"

"I love Sun, but it has been struggling for the last decade so no real opportunities available."

What do you like about working at Sun Microsystems?

"Informal environment, flexibility, great access to the best technology in them market"

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

"Lost too many money... ."

"Sunmicrosystems was an ok employer; it was EDS who doesn't care about the people."

What do you like about working at Sun Microsystems?

"The people I worked with, and our backline support."

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

"EDS, and their managers were sexist and prejuiced"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Hire someone that treats everyone as equals."