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Sun is the perfect place if you don\'t want to work. If you are an untechnical manager who needs to get ahead by playing politics instead of learning, Sun is the place to be. In the software division, every manager pats themselves on the back for a job well done despite putting out some horrible products. They often deflect blame instead of addressing the issues (Microsoft, bad sales, etc.). The managers do not listen to the right employees, but instead listen to Marketing or their talkative yet unqualified friends who they employ as engineers. It\'s maddeningly difficult to do the right thing. For example, there was a small problem that took 5 hours to fix, yet 3 managers discussed it for a solid year and a half before I could embark on this. Sun hires the wrong people, and the quality of employees gets lower and lower. Any good software engineer is forced to either endure the frustration involved with dealing with incompetent managers, or lower their work to lowest common demoninator to deal with the really badly qualified yet highly connected technical staff. Since many of the best and most ambitious have already left, the common demoninator just keeps getting lower and lower. However, if you are good, you can get your work done in 3 hours and leave early. If you\'re not good, you don\'t have to do work as you need to do is chat it up. My office is both nearly empty at both 9:00AM and 5:00PM.