Nokia Reviews in Irving, TX

I have been working at Nokia full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Chance to grow professionally, make your own decisions, meet many people from all walks of life. Challenging opportunity.

Cons – Management is lost, if someone does not work out, get rid of them instead of loosing months on worthless re-organizational changes. Cut the dead weight at the top, you have a bunch of loosers on the payroll and have cut many of the people that can make the company come back.

Advice to Senior Management – Move to include Android, ASAP!!!! Get rid of the dead managers that are pulling you down.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I worked at Nokia full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – - Ability to control your own destiny; lots of responsibility with equal authority
- Share in successes with good bonus plan
- Excellent internal communication on strategy
- Liberal vacation and time off policy
- Mobile/Global work force
- Well stated value system
- Took care of their employees very well in the decline

Cons – - Wrong strategic choices caused significant market share declines
- Endless layoffs lead to fragmented processes with unknown process owners
- Old management had their own vision of what mobile should be which didn't coincide with the trade customer's vision

Advice to Senior Management – Not that this applies to the current environment, but lessons learned:
- Listen to employees - when they say "we need flip and touch", do it
- De-centralize R&D and Sourcing to be able to design for unique customer and regional requirements

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I worked at Nokia full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Great values, culture, atmosphere, attitude of peers

Cons – Weak executive management, strategy errors, poor execution

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

I worked at Nokia full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Great Culture
Great Benefits
Great People
Great place to learn

Cons – Too many layoffs in the last 8 years

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

I have been working at Nokia full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – The work environment is very flexible, there are also work from home days that can be agreed. Salary and benefits are very competative.

Cons – IT has just recently been outsourced so there are limited career options here in that field. The company is still struggling with profitability so there may be future headcount reductions in the future.

Advice to Senior Management – Change management must be planned much better in the future and there should be a planned localization strategy for these changes.

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

I 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

I worked at Nokia full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – High energy, collaborative atmosphere, cool company to begin with

Cons – chaotic due to lack of planning, arrogance

Advice to Senior Management – Proper planning prevents pis_ poor performance

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

I have been working at Nokia

Pros – Great benefits, international flavor, lots of great people to work with

Cons – Company struggling in marketplace, slow to turn around, some job losses still possible

Advice to Senior Management – Difficult decisions made with regards to company direction - strategy yet to be proven or disproven.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Nokia

Pros – Opportunities to grow
Having great phones to explore apps with
Not many people leave Nokia
It's one of few companies to help manage work-life balance

Cons – Reduction in force in Irving
IT and operations working with minimum staff
Late to respond to market demands
Lack of planning for smooth transitions during constant reorganizations

Advice to Senior Management – Tossing people back and forth between Sunnyvale and Irving is not a sound location strategy

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Nokia

Pros – its a big brand name that is well regarded in the telecom industry.
free phones are a big perk here

Cons – there is always something going on
several restructurings have happened
company is quite unstable
future is sort of bleak in North America

Advice to Senior Management – there is no advice that i can offer to the leader ship team at nokia. they know very well what they are doing