Nokia reviews

4.0

81% would recommend to a friend

(18,645 total reviews)
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73% approve of CEO

63% positive business outlook

Nokia has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 18,645 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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1.0
Jun 16, 2008
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Pros

Nokia's security business is stable and thus layoffs are minimized. Overall Head Office policies are sound. Beautiful campus and a good cafeteria.

Cons

The security business in Mountain View is very poorly managed. The hostile relationship between Nokia (platform supplier) and Checkpoint (application supplier) allowed other companies to win business. The actual management in that organization is mediocre at best but they are very good at in-fighting especially between the Boston and California branches. Very juvenille. The company had a lot of issues integrating the security business into their overall business model. The marriage to Enterprise was questionable as there were few, if any, synergies. It really looked like a holding ground for people uninterested in challenging themselves.

2.0
Jun 16, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Vacation on par with Europe, opportunities to work on projects outside the US. The majority of co-workers and lower level managers are quite bright and competent. The product portfolio is broad and seems to be accepted outside of the US marketplace.

Cons

NSN is organized in silos, but run as a matrix organization. To accomplish something as simple as a quote for an existing product requires configuration management from one team, pricing from another, project management from a third. The layoffs from post merger consolidation were very de-motivating to much of the workforce, and due to the inability to accomplish our goals, we've seen very high attrition as well. Since we're not replacing the people who move to other companies, the workload for those who remain continues to increase. Plus we're loosing the brightest, most innovative people and keeping those who are comfortable with the status quo.

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