Nokia Reviews in Dallas-Fort Worth, TX Area

Pros

Great work life balance, wonderful people to work with

Cons

zero room for advancement unless you are Finnish. Micromanagement, useless tasks deemed very important

Pros

Work life balance
Coworkers are great
Global perspective
Finally looks like there is a strategy to get behind
Lots of time PTO

Cons

Confused strategy
Reorg after reorg
Finnish management culture
Siloed culture can make it difficult to get things done
There is a lot of bureaucracy

Advice to Senior Management

Get out of Finland and focus on the things that will really make a difference, totally the wrong direction in withdrawing back to Finland.

Pros

Benefits and Flexible schedule to work

Cons

Not invented here mentality of Finish centric.
Myopic and stubborn old school management

Advice to Senior Management

New non Finnish blood needed. Move away from Finland

Pros

Nokia is a Good place to work. It is surrounded by Good community where you can easily find a place to live in. If you find an apartment nearby, Life is peaceful. Also the kind of challenges you face in Nokia are interesting ones. By nature Nokia workmates turn out to be very Supportive.
Overall its a very wonderful experience.

Cons

Sometimes Weather gets too hot.
If you are have a crappy manger, your life can easily become hell. Either you end up working late and missing on our life or you will be screwed.

Pros

The benefits from Nokia are very good compared to most companies. Nokia picks up the majority of the basic costs for healthcare and matches 401k up to 6% total. Due to distance from Finland, when you start work very early local time, you get flexi-time later in the day to take care of personal business.

Cons

Nokia as a whole is contracting back to Finland. All roles and functions outside of Finland are reduced and even inside Finland there have been reductions. If the company is not successful with the new Windows Phones in the US Market during 2012, then expect further reductions in 2013.

Advice to Senior Management

You would have been far better served by having your lower level management use this year of reductions to handpick the people to leave. Instead, you cut wide numbers of people with skills & knowledge that are not easily recreated. 2012 will be a very confusing and very hard year.

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

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

Pros

Nokia has a great work/life balance. Also, they are open to hear from people regardless of position.

Cons

Senior management was very slow to act on the iPhone challenge. Also, working in satellite office meant that we had little input to our direction, at least in the case of my project.

Advice to Senior Management

Work like crazy to come up with a competitive smartphone, market it in the US, then push to innovate so that they have something unique (vs iPhone and Android).

Pros

Good benefits and work/life balance.

Cons

Very limited career enhancement opportunities.

Pros

Global opportunities and now really starting over so chance to grow.

Cons

Limited Vision and lack of customer focus

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to the customer, as we've struggled to meet their needs and so many key relationships are not built on trust. We have repution of arrogance and not able to communicate our position clearly.