Nokia Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Nokia full-time for more than a year

Pros – Good people
Lots of talent
Not a backstabbing environment

Cons – - Too many reorgs
- Sometimes have folks of questionable talent or who lack motivation and work ethic in Sr. roles
Waste an awful lot of money on European managers brought stateside -- the comp and benefits are ridiculous for some of these people...and the company is not one with a lot of extra cash right now
- Too slow in execution
- Opportunities for advancement are limited right now
- Lots of layoffs due to market position

Advice to Senior Management – Speed up execution

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Nokia full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Particularly nice benefit program. Impressive vacation time potential for those who have put in the years. Great people who desperately desire to see this company return as the market leader. Come on NOK stock!

Cons – Room for advancement and individual innovation. However, once you hit a particular career level, it becomes necessary to either manage a group or move to Finland. Concerned that not everything is being done to reach the America's market, but I know it can't happen in one year or even a few years.

Advice to Senior Management – Find ways to fully utilize the skills of those within your influence.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Nokia full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – They truly try to live and manage by the company values
Good benefits, respectful of work/life balance

Cons – A lot of change has happened over the last few years. It is a very fluid environment
Career growth can be limited by your location

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Nokia full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – If you are looking for a place to hang out the economy downturn. This is a place you can hide for a while.

Cons – Re-org, re-org and re-org. I have 6 managers within 2 years due to re-org. It was turned from bad to worse after I was regroup to a incapable group with full of jokers. Management only likes yes man even blind know what was wrong in the team.

Advice to Senior Management – First line managers should be eliminated all together. They did not manage people nor project. All they do is just relay their managers request to people who report to them at the very last minute.

Then these managers blame their people for failing the project.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Nokia full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – great technology, great people (old timers), flexible work hours (depends upon which group you work for), great vacation (almost a month off) etc

Cons – Sr. Management needs to be wiped clean as petty politics and no clear vision across all business areas is bringing this great company down.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Nokia full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Innovative technology, good benefits, provide you trainings needed

Cons – management culture is bad, there is a big gap between management and engineer

Advice to Senior Management – cut middle and lower management, cut product management, program management

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Nokia full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – manager considers work and life balance is very important.

Cons – lack of career opportunities at work.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Nokia full-time for more than a year

Pros – Fair HR Policies > vacation and benefits; When they lay people off they provide a reasonable package.

Cons – Global nature of the company makes communications challenging (language and time zones

Advice to Senior Management – Get a product that can compete

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Nokia full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Nokia treats you very well. The company solicits and examines your input for improving the work environment. Nokia builds solid products that add value to the industry. I would work for them again without a second thought.

Cons – My particular position required about 75% travel. I was away from home quite a lot.

Advice to Senior Management – Keep doing what you are doing. When a company treats employees in the manner Nokia treats theirs, it creates a loyalty that cannot be broken down. Thanks for a great 7 years.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Nokia full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Good benefits
Available resources at your disposition

Cons – Too many managers
Many managers are not technical but managing technical project

Advice to Senior Management – Too many overlapping functions,
Not good technical managers

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company