NAVTEQ Reviews

Pros

-Tons of technologies to work with
-Fast moving development
-Friendly coworkers

Cons

-Since being bought by Nokia, the has been a significant lack of communication and direction
-Sometimes the development is too focused on progressing and leaves some details behind.

Advice to Senior Management

My interactions personally were great, but there often seemed like there was too much noise in the communication from managers. So many emails all the time for instance, made it difficult to determine what was truly important.

Pros

sometimes it is Interesting to work there.

Cons

sometimes sometimes it is boring to work there.

Advice to Senior Management

none

Pros

Navteq has some pretty cool technologies. I worked with Spring MVC, Jasper Reports, IReports and Spring Security

Cons

Management was poor. My super wasn't very useful and was mostly absent. I didn't feel welcome there. A pretty cold place.

Advice to Senior Management

Give more direction. Provide a more friendly environment. Don't hire people just based on if they have a Masters degree. That does give you a higher educated person however you also tend to get a lot of ego and very few followers.

Pros

Good people, great technology and product space, growth opprotunities if you are a high performer, investing in becoming a better agile company.

Cons

Uncertainty due to purchase by Nokia causing major reorganization and consolidation of organizations and facilities. Nokia struggling to keep its market share in the mobile space.

Pros

Navteq was a great place to work. Now as Nokia Location and Commerce, I am not certain anymore.
Good company for all things location related. Potential for continued growth in a ever changing marketplace, provided they can identify with this new marketplace and provide for it. Lots of great people. Great benefits.

Cons

Total turmoil at the moment with a high degree of uncertainty causing low moral. Nokia is certainly flexing its musle and trying to steer the company for its own self intrests. Remains to be seen if those intrests will be enough to keep NAVTEQ in a leadership position within the LBS industry.
Internal politics & a lack of career paths are obsticles for advancement.
Too slow to implement some creative & innovative ideas.
High level communciation is fine; lower level communciation is atrocious. Sharing of information between groups is nearly impossible.
Coach tickets for all international travel.
HR is too strong and not helpful.

Advice to Senior Management

Dont forget about what made NAVTEQ successful for 25 years and establish itself as the leader in the digital map insudtry: Quality, Customer care, Cool Products, Great People

Pros

Stress free and relatively healthy environment.

Cons

No advancement or promotional opportunity.

Pros

In some parts of the company you have the freedom to work from home. Some managers howerver do not allow this.

Cons

Navteq has completely embraced the AGILE methodology to an extreem such that they if you are very experienced like I am (20 years) they will still force you to do work that erodes at your Resume because it is mindless and work that degrades your skills.

Advice to Senior Management

Value your senior level employees who have many years computing experience and respect that they have earned the right to be to experienced for some tasks otherwise they will leave and you will loose talent. The IT market is always good for professionals with extensive experience its easy to walk away from a job that undervalues you.

Pros

Good pay, good colleagues, relaxed atmosphere

Cons

Drama mid management and lack of communication

Pros

- nice offices in Chicago and most remote locations
- reasonable working hours (empty by 5PM)
- barriers to entry relatively high - limited competition

Cons

- very political - importance of belonging to right clique - how to create & use personal friendships for professional gain
- not run by product people but strongly influenced by sales people concerned more about their bonuses than the long-term company
- no HR vision for employees or company as a whole

Advice to Senior Management

- think about how to make great products and services and the sales & finance will take care of themselves. and don't forget about innovation
- learn about HR from companies like GE
- get rid of the politicians

Pros

Company that is realistic about it's position, challenges, and opportunities. Great opportunity to learn and grow. No politics. Everyone works towards the success of the company over the success of themselves.

Cons

Slow moving as a large company. Bureaucracy still gets in the way.

Advice to Senior Management

Trust your employees to do a good job and get rid of all their roadblocks. Then you will have the chance to succeed.