Nokia Sr. Software Engineer reviews

- Rampant recruitment by lowering the quality bars at every level (from senior management to software engineers) - I have worked with software engineers who could not write a 'for loop' properly at Nokia Bangalore; no idea how they got recruited - Poor leadership and management skills of middle level managers - who have been recruited from services companies and who's mindset has not changed from viewing the headquarters (Finland) as just a 'client' - Poor accountability due to frequent re-organizations

Huge company brings with it an inevitable level of bureaucracy. Many layers between the CEO and the average engineer mean it is hard to feel engaged with company strategy etc. Frequent re-organisations leading to people not really taking responsibility for things and not ever having to eat their own dogfood. Questionable tools & processes. Losing market share. Just announced big redundancies. Employee morale amongst the engineers is pretty low at the moment. "Not invented in Finland" syndrome - an idea has to have a Finnish name against it to get anywhere.