Best Employer in IT Category

Best Employer in IT Category

Sun Microsystems Czech became the best company from IT industry in the Best Employer, Czech Republic Study. 
We've repeated the success from last year, when we won the category and left Microsoft behind.

The absolute winner from all 42 companies that participated this year is IKEA, we won 5th place in total. 

So why did we place in TOP 10 for last 3 years?

Here is my theory:

• SMART PEOPLE
  There are a lot of very smart  people working at Sun. I was impressed about high technical level of engineers in my first day here and I'm still amused. Smart people know what they want to do in their career and life. And they're very vocal if they can't get the job done, due to any bureaucratic obstacles. So it gets fixed.
  
• TEAM
  Team is more than the sum of individuals. Team is about helping and respecting each other, leveraging individual skills and knowledge. I've seen companies where the team members competed with each other. Glad not to see it here in engineering.
• CHALLENGING JOB
  Although each job can be boring after a while, it doesn't happen so often, if you need to keep up with the latest technologies.
• FUN
  It's a shame my team of Lab Managers lost the Laser game against Gatekeepers on Tuesday, but I'm sure they had a good time there (counting the number of hours they spent there). Next time I need to clean up my calendar from all evening calls, so I can join them.
  

Long weekend is coming (May 1st is a public vacation and most people take a day off on Monday), time to celebrate the success.

Posted at 05:56PM Apr 27, 2007 by Pavel Suk in Prague Engineering Center  |  Comments[1]