Nokia Senior Software Engineer reviews

3.5

59% would recommend to a friend

(520 total reviews)
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Justin Hotard

56% approve of CEO

55% positive business outlook

Senior Software Developer Engineer employees have rated Nokia with 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 520 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Senior Software Developer Engineer professionals have a good working experience there. Nokia is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Senior Software Developer Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Telekommunikation industry (3.6 stars).

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520 reviews
3.0
Feb 10, 2013
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Pros

Pretty safe job in case you are a technical professional. Working time is 37,5h/week.

Cons

Poor salaries on sites which have relatively no competition in the same area. Technical oriented people are not appreciated as the ones who just sit in meetingrooms.

4.0
Feb 8, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Nokia is a great company to work for as a technical engineer as there is a high level of technical competence across all areas of the company. The hours are flexible as needed and my colleagues are generally fantastic. The pay is generally average to above average, but other benefits such as 401k match and paid time off are exceptional. Even in the unfortunate situation where the company needs to lay people off, they are treated fairly, and the company makes the transition as painless as possible for the departing employee.

Cons

When the company is not doing well it is reflected by doing layoffs. When the company is doing well, they tend to hire like crazy. This results in a viscous repetitive cycle of too aggressive hiring followed by layoffs followed by more hiring followed by more layoffs. This is not helpful for overall employee morale.

4.0
Feb 7, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Nokia provided an environment with significant challenges and generally rewarded achievement against them. A Flexible approach is generally taken - you are free to choose your own way of working, within reason.

Cons

A little too much management oversight on important decisions, a certain lack of trust in an Engineer's opinion, at least in Software. Salaries (in the UK) were slightly less than average

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