Nokia reviews

4.0

81% would recommend to a friend

(18,655 total reviews)
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74% approve of CEO

64% positive business outlook

Nokia has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 18,655 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Nokia employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Telekommunikation industry (3.6 stars).

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3.0
Jan 18, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

- Get to work on huge/cutting edge networks - Good work/life balance - Nice offices - Fair on call pay scheme - Good IT/hardware/labs - Generally decent (if unfriendly) people - Good place to get an entry level job and start your career. - Generally the work load is not excessive, as they employ so many people (could be seen as a con - this is due to middle management empire building)

Cons

If you work at Nokia, there are 0 prospects for career progression. They actively discourage people switching roles. You CANNOT get a pay rise for switching roles. If you are in a team earning 30K a year, and join a team where a new hire would get 40K, you will stay on 30K. This is the stupidest policy I have ever heard of at a company, and is why most people only work here a couple of years, or forever. There is a weird culture of people joining the company at an entry level, and keeping that job until retirement. If you work there for decades they will eventually give you a pay grade bump and you'll get more money, but this is the only way to increase your salary. This is the reason why I left, and is a shame as it was a good place to work. You can only get a significant pay rise if you stay there for 10+ years. And having said all that, the pay is WAY below average. I changed jobs, and got almost double the salary. Major con is extremely unfriendly office culture. To the point where people will not even acknowledge you if you say hello to them in the kitchen. Teams do not mix at all. Ridiculous internal processes (by the time you get approval to buy something, the quote you got has expired) but probably no worse than other large corporations.

2.0
Jan 14, 2022

Nokia Ottawa team

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good salary and performance driven initiative Around three weeks of paid location No micromanagement

Cons

Slow processes Working with India team on their time zone Poor communication within the team The manager has not done 1:1 in 6 months No-one turned on their webcam in any meetings even I worked there for years A great deal of difference in work culture from what it appears to be on Linkedin for teams in Europe and teams in Ottawa. The company hasn't given a single dollar for clearing certifications Haven’t given a penny for work from home setup Every 2 years, the company does a lot of changes on the upper management restructuring. You will receive long emails about what they are planning to do and what they are doing. But literally, at your level, nothing will change. So in the end, the company will be doing a lot of restructuring just because new leaders came and they want to do things their way. Overall, so do you think creates a lot of uncertainty with employees and lack of trust in company policy Poor intra-team communications Almost 0 events for team building. Just one event was organized where we met in the park, that's it! On 16th March 2021, Nokia announced that it will lay off 10k employees within 1-2 years because of that the motivation was impacted Gave 0% increment at end of the year for no good reason Gave no perks except the standard insurance plan. Being in development, when asked for Mac I was told that Windows is the only option that you can have, awesome 🙌 Most teams rely on VLab (an IaaS) to deploy/perform/test their work, I was not assigned a lab for more than a year. Everybody in the management kept saying that we are short of resources. How can you deploy 10 versions of 50 GB software on a single Lenovo machine and be productive? The NCS team has good documentation, most of the others I have seen rely on confluence pages most of which are outdated or hard to find. No of rounds to get the job was lesser, so it will be better if they hire quality people rather than just hiring in a single meeting.

3.0
Jan 3, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Excellent people to work with and great culture

Cons

Salaries paid are low compared to market. Lot of hiring decisions are political Large number of inorganic acquisitions has left company with no clear direction and vision

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