Interestingly right around this was posted here, I happened to talk to a colleague of mine from an adjacent team and I found out that he had worked at Sun. And he was raving about his time there and just how much he enjoyed working there (and money was not even mentioned).

I have come across a few places/companies which do great work and employees just LOVE(D) being there. Here are some on my list: * Bell Labs * Sun * Microsoft * Google

So, this begs the question: Which companies today (Sep 2023) are the Google of the early 2000s?

FWIW, I went through all previous threads of this interview and there is no such discussion or mention of any company names.