Nokia Siemens Networks Reviews

Pros

Talented people, great working culture, good benefits, possibility to grow within company to some edtent, possibility to get a contract abroad.

Cons

Low salary, no clear direction or strategy, every couple of months big reorganizations, bad communication from management towards employees, IT seems to be always behind the market with all decisions

Pros

I got a chance to learn about SGSN and how mobile internet works. People were helping and taught me various stuff.

Cons

staff lacks energy. People are not paid enough. Pressure on management for downsizing as economic conditions are not going well enough.

Advice to Senior Management

try bringing new and fresh perspective to address problems. they tend to solve issues in the conventional way without keeping in mind that this is year 2012!

Pros

good work-life balance
good freedom
technical growth in few domains

Cons

very low package
poor employee recognition

Pros

Leading technology vendor
global exposure
mufti-cultural environment

Cons

Strategy is always changing
lack of knowledge for the middle east region

Advice to Senior Management

more focus on the customer

Pros

Lots of new learning, respect for employees

Cons

Lots depend on the line manager.

Pros

international team working, worldwide customer base, job rotation possibilities, good team working, respect , support from immediate manager, taking into account my opinion

Cons

too many sites within the organization, too many levels of amangement, difficult descision making even is small issues because of too many people involved and not having a single responsible

Advice to Senior Management

simplify the organzation, clear owner for all features, products. Simplify product portfolio, clear goals for the company. Better quailty products

Pros

Opportunity to deliver mobile broadband in this connected world. Company is focussed on helping the operators build world-class networks to meet the increasing demand for data connectivity by the consumers.

Cons

As it happens with large companies, many innovative ideas get lost if it is not heard by the right people.

Advice to Senior Management

Complete the restructuring ASAP.

Pros

Good benefits
Great vacations
Average salaries with good bonuses

Cons

Maximum flexibility expected from technical workforce, stability is a matter of luck
Employee= just a number in a labor pool
Promotion go to the few people who have a stable job around the boss
Lack of structured technical employee's career development

Advice to Senior Management

Maximum flexibility burns people out
"Labor Pool" employees don't have visibility to management and don't stand a chance for promotion
Company values are promising but made impossible by company structure

Pros

Competitive compensation package
Strong marketbposition in radio and services

Cons

Complaining and blaming company culture
Limited empowerment
Management distrusting people -very centralized desicion making
Deteriorating customer focus

Advice to Senior Management

Reduce EB, trust the people and put desicion power to the frontline, carve out non-productive staff on global and admin functions

Pros

Good culture
Friendly
Good pay and on call bonus is higher than the rest of the organisation in the APAC.
Great work location, Pyrmont.

Cons

Lack of local vision
Too many unqualified people in management
Slave to process with a lack of pragmatism when required

Advice to Senior Management

Leave the experts to it!