Nokia Employee Job Reviews in the United States

"Too generalized."

What do you like about working at Nokia?

"Independence."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Great company to work, good pay, great benefit, good training, but the people who are in charge of making the sales and contract management have no clue of what is going on and they tend to think short term. Is truly a shame!"

What don't you like about working at Nokia?

"Job security."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Be more socially responsible and make decisions for long term, understand that these decisions affect workers and their families."

"Nokia is a fantastic, human, and intelligent company."

What do you like about working at Nokia?

"I like the wide scope of opportunities to develop in market, and I like the great products and solutions."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be yourself."

What don't you like about working at Nokia?

"Don't develop vertical careers."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Be more flexible in new markets."

"Nokia is a great company to start an engineering career."

"What happened to Nokia."

What do you like about working at Nokia?

"I like the vacation time."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Try somewhere else."

What don't you like about working at Nokia?

"I dislike the lack of innovation."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Wake Up!"

What do you like about working at Nokia?

"Relaxed environment."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Study job position well."

What don't you like about working at Nokia?

"R&D environment working on the latest cellular phone technologies."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Open more positions for career growth."

"Nokia is a no-pressure place."

What do you like about working at Nokia?

"I like that it is a no-pressure place. I also like the name recognition."

What don't you like about working at Nokia?

"I dislike the strong cronyism and favoritism,and that there is no obvious direction on any project."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"They must keep every deadline and have no tolerance for slippage."

"It is a good company to work for, but mother Nokia had no idea how to manage CA subsidiaries."

"The good old boys club needs to go! Qualified people need to be given the opportunity to succeed and not the brown-nosers."

What do you like about working at Nokia?

"The R&D and new technology was great. The upper management (folks from Finland) were great."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Nokia as a company is a great place to work. It needs to stay away from the deadly office politics and watch out for the vulture culture."

What don't you like about working at Nokia?

"The problem, or the bottle neck, was with the middle management band. The good old boys club was always there, and brown-nosing was your key to success. As for an example: 1. A person with secretarial experience was hired and promoted to lead a part of the S/W Test group; 2. A person with a biology degree was hired and promoted to lead a part of the S/W Test group. This not only introduced setbacks, but also encouraged back stabbing and vulture culture."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Hire ethical people who are well-qualified and have proper college degrees in the field. Please cut the cancerous part of the middle management and remove the good old boys club. Let qualified engineers shine and be productive. Nokia is a good company. However, the middle management is destroying the original Nokia culture."

"Good Old Boys Club."

"Would not work at Nokia again. Good money, but poor people skills."

What do you like about working at Nokia?

"The 6 weeks of vacation time, and beautiful location. The performance bonuses were AWESOME! Serious money to be had there."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Ask lots of questions about management goals, technical direction required, balance of work and life (they say they balance it, but don't practice it), and make sure you are clear about what area they are hiring you for."

What don't you like about working at Nokia?

"Poor upper and middle management with unreasonable expectations of schedule. Changed product directions often as though they didn't have a clear plan. Middle level managers accepted rumors about people as fact during reviews. ALWAYS negative feedback on reviews even when I was team leader and wanted to put praise on my team member's reviews. Favorites during merit raises without consulting team leaders on actual performance."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Advertise the incentive bonus program before work begins. Resolve the bonus results before the next quarter begins. Positive praise sometimes is worth more than just throwing more money at people! You are allowed to give more than one person on a team a high exceeds rating if more than one person has worked hard!"

"VMware is better."

"Nokia has strong mobile marketing programs."

What do you like about working at Nokia?

"I loved the exposure to people."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Ask questions and do a cost benefit analysis. Focus on the company's consistency and quality, and how your skills can improve those areas."

What don't you like about working at Nokia?

"I believe the company can do better with employee relations, which, in effect, will improve overall production. However, the overall job is good."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"You are as strong as your weakest link, which is, in this case, the employee relations in the manufacturing sector. When employee relations were good, production increased by 30%, which translates into higher levels of quality control and employee retention. That, in turn, improves the base quota. Unfortunately, within our branch that housed up to 3,000 employees, employee relations were below average 90% of the time, and potential was lost."

What don't you like about working at Nokia?

"Lack of direction."

What do you like about working at Nokia?

"A lot of multicultural colleagues."

What don't you like about working at Nokia?

"Lack of focus and sometimes professionalism + ethics on the work floor."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Improvement on strategies."