Working at Nokia in San Diego, CA: 23 Employee Job Reviews by Real Employee working in San Diego, CA Area

"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!"

"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."

"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."

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."

"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!"

"Good company culture."

"Good company to work for."

What do you like about working at Nokia?

"The challenge."

What don't you like about working at Nokia?

"The benefits are not as good as other companies."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Need to improve benefits."

"Nokia is a good company to work for."

What do you like about working at Nokia?

"I liked the challenge."

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

"They are a good company to work for."

What don't you like about working at Nokia?

"The benefits were not as good as they are at other companies."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Management needs to improve benefits."