Nokia Reviews in Bangalore, India Area

Pros

1.Great work and family balance.
2.Global exposure.
3.fairly good salary.
4.Good working environment.
5.Nice HR policies.

Cons

1.Lot of bureaucracy
2.No clear vision in top management.
3.flat structure due to which growth opportunity is less.
4.Constant restructuring in organization which creates lot of confusion.

Advice to Senior Management

have clear decision making at the top level management and adapt to market changes.
Reduce restructuring constantly.

Pros

Working on cloud Computing and work from scratch on cloud

Cons

Unstability across the organizatrion . which demotivate employee

Advice to Senior Management

Desicision should be properly to keep moral high

Pros

Good work life balance. Good perks. World's leading brand in mobile phones. Salary is better than services companies. On par with some product companies.

Cons

Too much of process and hierarchy. Office politics. Recently going down to competition in phone business. Less job security. Quality of work is not as good, but i feel in most of the s/w companies in India the case is same. Work is mostly maintenance or feature enhancement. Very less development from scratch.

Advice to Senior Management

Need to take strong and wise decisions to bring back company in its success path again. Every time you did a re-org to reduce management layers and create a flat organization, then end result in India was that there effected more such roles.

Pros

1. Work/Life balance is very good.
2. As organization is very very big....lots of things goes around and person with passion can find people doing various things.
3. Ample time to try out things and experiment more.
4. Management is supporting and recognize your hard work.

Cons

1. In recent times, top level decisions have turned out to be destructive in terms of implementation which lowers employee morale.
2. Projects often misses the deadline which results in bonus compensation.
3. Often implementing the things which has come to market already resulting in loss of market share.
4. Too much R&D for certain modules and at later point of time...cancellation of project or cancellation of product turns employee work into waste.

Advice to Senior Management

While making decisions please stick to it and make sure the deadlines are meeting. Launch the product on time with quality and planned it accordingly.

Pros

Good culture,package, less work load, benefits are good

Cons

frequent reorganizations,strategy is poor, too late in bringing phones to market

Advice to Senior Management

improve time to market of mobile phones

Pros

Good work life balance
Good monetary benefits in terms of variable pay and other allowances
Handset and laptop will be provided to you within your first day of joining and you can take it with you even leave the organization after some specific period
Transparency about management decisions

Cons

No technical career growth. If you are really want to grow technically then this is not your place
Reorganization happens every six months
You will be hired for some core technical competencies and they ask to you work for process and project management area
Services are not best in the market standards. You're far behind than your competitors
Decommissioning almost 4 services within a year because of poor acquisitions
Salaries are not up to the market standards
Too many people working on a same project

Advice to Senior Management

Stop the re-organization
Make some stable product
Try to retain your valuable employees by giving salary hike

Pros

Work on latest technology and very innovative company

Cons

You need to do over work sometimes

Advice to Senior Management

concentrate on smartphones

Pros

1> Good benefits
2> Lot of telented people around the world, who are ready to help and guide

Cons

1> Less skilled managers, who thinks they know lots, but actually doesnt.
2> Not much help from management in career growth

Advice to Senior Management

Hire some good people who understands technology and also understands people management skills and not pay them huge for actaully doing nothing except sleeping whole day and acquring all new phones possible and distributing free of cost to there relatives.

Pros

very good work life balane

Cons

work env is not that healthy

Advice to Senior Management

Respect the valued engineers before they decide to move off

Pros

-Great work life balance, work from home options
-managers understand personal commitments
-good benefits package, 25 vacation days is highest by any employer in India. free phone, call charges paid, free broadband at home
-most recognized brand in India, although it is doing badly worldwide
-above average salary compared to similar league companies in Bangalore
-depending on the team, you could be doing great work.
-bangalore is still a low cost option for nokia. job seems more secure compared to other locations worldwide

Cons

-hit on the innovative front, being hit badly by competition. always plays follower
-soon to lose the numero uno position
-bonuses are zero when all the other companies are doing well and paying fat bonuses

Advice to Senior Management

avoid layoffs