Nokia Reviews

Pros

Nokia is a company with a heart. It's generous and focuses a lot on work-life balance.

Cons

Sometimes there are too many stakeholders involved in making one decision.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep it simple.

Pros

Nokia company culture (although fade a bit than before)
Good resource for learning
Transparent and open in information sharing
Generally cooperative atmosphere
Work life balance
Human

Cons

Slow reaction to the market change
Incompetent up level management (especially in the past)
Lack of respect to personal talent
Career advance depend on network and luck (e.g. how business strategy at that moment affects your team and your location ) rather than performance
Conservative in applying new technology or business model

Advice to Senior Management

Respect talent and make use of good people
More accountability for both low and up levels
Be brave to take risks

Pros

Family work balancing and Long leaves

Cons

Frequent restructuring and changing leadership

Pros

People there are smart and easy to get along with.

Cons

Senior management was all talk and was constantly changing the direction of the company.

Advice to Senior Management

Pick a direction and stick with it to see if it works.

Pros

Work-life balance, career progress, the possibility of doing job rotation, good salaries and benefits, clear communcation from managers to employees.

Cons

Slow to innovate, too big and sometimes bureaucratic, a lot of people from old school (especially Finns) who don't seem to realize the world has changed.

Advice to Senior Management

Renew the Nokia Leadership Team, remove people from the old times, get new blood to lead the company into the new direction.

Pros

Progressive work environment that hires the best and takes care of each person.

Cons

No much opportunity for advancement

Advice to Senior Management

Kind and caring

Pros

Good work-life benefits.
They treat employees very well.

Cons

Career growth is limited unless you live in Finland or UK.
Bonuses based in big part on company performance.

Advice to Senior Management

Way too much bureaucracy.
Too many management layers.
If you complain to your manager, you might be the one let go in the next lay off.
Too much rubber-stamping by long time Finnish management.

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

Passionate People.
Friendly and non-political culture.
Open challenging dialog.
Problem solving mentality.
Multinational - global company.
Small feel within large organization.
Flexible working models.

Cons

lack of true commitment to quality.
sacrifice quality and usability over time deadlines.
stuck in technology rather than leveraging it as an enabler.
too many "empowered" people with vito rights in the company.

Advice to Senior Management

Continue on the path of change. The company needs to continue to evolve toward a more energetic & accountable set of people with a passion for really developing the next greatest thing. we can be successful again.

Pros

Great people, great culture. Lot's of very smart people that know what's needed to win and generally people are great to work with. There's a high level of information sharing, and people are always willing to help and share. The new CEO is a definite plus and his focus on accountability is much needed - let's see it implemented.

Cons

Too many reorganizations too frequently. People never get into their role before they get moved. This also means that your job becomes a networking exercise, and day to day business is becoming more about how to keep your job and get the next one, than actually helping Nokia get stuff done and win. Because of this the good talent is leaving Nokia faster than they can find new, i.e. the people who actually know how to win go elsewhere and become competitors best assets.

Advice to Senior Management

Clean up in all the middle managers and top execs that don't perform - and haven't for years. Stop the nepotism, and start real talent management - there are plenty of good books out there and plenty of companies to learn from.