Nokia Reviews

Pros

Good work-life balance (depending on the team and position) and relatively decent pay, flexible work hour, promotion of individual leadership, opportunity to move within the organization, free speech with people in any level

Cons

Uneven quality of work among employees, too much promotion of individual leadership without clear and aligned goal setting (leading to wasted effort), random and seemingly unfair promotion of the people who are putting great effort in networking instead of working

Advice to Senior Management

Please maintain Nokia's great culture. transparent communication. Promote Finnish work ethic across the globe. Leadership of people in every level is important but let them know clearly what contribution they have to make - otherwise people will waste their effort (as they have been). Finally, pls do do not screw up. I still have Nokia stocks. All the best!

Pros

Good benefits. Good balance between life and work.

Cons

Not many opportunities to grow because managers don't pay attention.

Advice to Senior Management

Pay more attention to employe's personal and professional growth.

Pros

Nice facilities to work...
Ability to work with new handsets and technology...

Cons

Poor growth potential....
Too much internal politics between North America and Finland...
No direct feedback mechanism built in for doing a good job, of course when you don't do things right - feedback is quick.
Flexibility to move internally within working groups is impossible, unless you are in one of the major facilities......

Pros

Great work-life balance and vacation / personal / sick leave

Cons

Diminished global influence - hard to get mind share of partners

Advice to Senior Management

Greater accountability is welcomed. Previously if a product failed, the VP would just get recycled to another group.

Pros

Very good compensation, benefits and bonuses
Free phones and other gifts
You work may have a global reach (depending in which department you work)

Cons

Nokia lost its leadership position in the mobile market
Constant re-orgs
Over-communication and constantly changing corporate strategy
Too much thinking and not enough results
You feel like a small cog in a big machine
Bad corporate intranet - you never find the document you're looking for in there

Advice to Senior Management

With every re-org, you lose credibility

Pros

Great Benefits, Reasonable pay, reasonable work hours

Cons

lack of communications between each department
way too many important functions have been outsourced which caused less of control in everything
inflexibility
lack of leadership from the management team

Advice to Senior Management

implement better monitoring policy to enhance the efficiency and productivity of each division
outsourcing less
listen to your employees' feedbacks

Pros

Work life balance is great. Flexibility to manage personal life is great.

Cons

Lousy company to work for in the US if you are in one of the corporate functions

Advice to Senior Management

You must deliver to ATT and Verizon.

Pros

Good worklife balance with great systems and processes with accountability for ones own actions.

Cons

Org changes every 12months. Lack of internal promotion.

Advice to Senior Management

Be more aggressive with executing strategies and don't keep the 'dead wood'.

Pros

Excellent place to work, flexible hours, good pay

Cons

company in transition period, lots of uncertainty

Advice to Senior Management

you can do it

Pros

Great work/life balance, great management and team, team building is very strong, benefits are excellent, compensation is ok. Innovation and social responsibility are promoted.

Cons

Constant change and reorganization, compensation could be better

Advice to Senior Management

Retain talent