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

"Nokia was an exciting and challenging job."

"Nokia Mobile Phones R&D Center is nice to work at."

"It is a fast paced, challenging environment, with great people and processes."

What do you like about working at Nokia?

"I like having the ability to drive change and to always be on fast paced action."

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

"They should be direct, honest, and always willing to take a chance and manage risk."

What don't you like about working at Nokia?

"I dislike the current market situation that is not directly relevant to the work that I perform. It has a negative outcome to the current organization that I belong to, and we may be reducing personnel."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"They should continue to support the strategy outlined by our CEO and allow time to show the results of implementing the strategy."

"I loved where I worked."

"I have worked at Nokia for 7 months now and it is nice, but we are limited in the technology we can use so it feels like we don't pioneer much."

"Nokia is an excellent company to work for. It is very well organized and has a great team environment."

What do you like about working at Nokia?

"Fairly good with less challenge, too specialized environment and jobs under global time differences."

What don't you like about working at Nokia?

"Working in globally different time zones that disrupts daily sleep schedule."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Set up an alternate teleconference communication schedule with a better time window slot."

"I started with Nokia in 1999. For many years Nokia was the leading mobile handset manufacturer and was at the forefront of the mobile internet revolution. While it has lost its way of late, Nokia has always strived to be a company employees have been proud to represent. It has always had a moral and ethical spirit, ensuring not only that it worked towards its financial objectives it maintained a desire to achieve environmental and corporate 'citizen' responsibilities. At its heart Nokia cared."

"This is an average corporate company with a typical post success corporate culture."

"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!"

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."