A great company in its day
A great company in its day
If you love technology, Sun was a great place to work. There was an engineering culture second to none, and you got the experience of working for a company that understood that when you make the market bigger, that benefits you. It's seen as a failure now, but it really was just playing a longer game than the market had tolerance for.
Politics. Insane politics. The California side of the company, particularly the non-technical management, was more like kindergarteners bashing each other in the head with rocks. Getting pulled into someone's office for them to try to enlist you in helping get their boss fired so they could take his job happened to me. Just awful.
Don't sell the company to Oracle. Oops, I guess it's too late for that. A lot of worthwhile technology went down the drain at that point.
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Senior Staff Engineer
First round technical interview: Java, CNF, and some questions related to database and garbage collection. Overall, an average interview with the last 15 minutes dedicated to writing code for some data structure implementation.
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One hour phone interview. I was asked some questions about the projects I worked on. Then, some algorithm questions were asked; the questions were very simple. One week later, I got an on-site interview. The interview had 3 rounds: The first round:
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Completed a phone call, then a final round of two 1-hour interviews. Both were behavioral and technical, each including an easy LeetCode problem. Waiting to hear back; the process was quick overall.
Senior Staff Engineer
Bengaluru, Karnataka, IndiaJuly 1, 2024First round technical interview: Java, CNF, and some questions related to database and garbage collection. Overall, an average interview with the last 15 minutes dedicated to writing code for some data structure implementation.
Software Engineer
Menlo Park, California, United StatesOctober 1, 2010One hour phone interview. I was asked some questions about the projects I worked on. Then, some algorithm questions were asked; the questions were very simple. One week later, I got an on-site interview. The interview had 3 rounds: The first round:
Software Engineering Intern
United StatesSeptember 17, 2022Completed a phone call, then a final round of two 1-hour interviews. Both were behavioral and technical, each including an easy LeetCode problem. Waiting to hear back; the process was quick overall.
