I worked at sun (sunsoft) right out of school near the peak. It was great. I was very excited to have all of the sources for sunos easily available to read.

Later, in grad school I went to work at a startup… google. For me it recaptured everything I liked about Sun. And had the same CEO.

It indeed was a fantastic place, doors nailed to the walls, trying out the newly fledged Mapreduce and Charlie's. Good times. Good times.