Nokia Employee Job Reviews in the United States

What do you like about working at Nokia?

"It is a good Finnish company. Working there is respected and ever proud."

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

"You need to be professional and express good communication skills."

What don't you like about working at Nokia?

"It helped me improve a lot, with fulfilling challenges to explore NOKIA's own mobile OS. But now the company is in a bad situation and has to change strategy."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"The big company always falls into the trap of long process and inefficiency."

"They are a great company that is losing ground to Apple and Samsung."

What do you like about working at Nokia?

"I liked the great history of innovation and my first two projects there (out of three), including the Big Data cloud database platform work."

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

"Stay away from those teams that are being downsized or phased out."

What don't you like about working at Nokia?

"The company is downsizing in free-falling mode. There is a short term focus by some first line managers who just want to save their own asses."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Retain smart people. Don't panic, keep innovating, and don't overreact to crises."

"Nokia is a great company. It really connects people."

What do you like about working at Nokia?

"I like their company values. They care for the consumers and the employees above all."

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

"Nokia chooses only the best people. Be prepared for a long interview. Mine took seven hours."

What don't you like about working at Nokia?

"Nokia is in dire financial stress right now and it has to make difficult choices. Only time will tell if those choices were the right ones."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Do not put all of your eggs in the Microsoft basket or you'll be crushed."

"Great atmosphere and team member, too bad that leadership team is really poor."

What do you like about working at Nokia?

"Fast delivery and fast feedback from customers, freedom in choosing technology and tools."

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

"It's probably not the best time to work there because of reorganization."

What don't you like about working at Nokia?

"Politics, bad decisions from management, layoffs, no free coffee."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"More listening to their employees, and do not panic."

What do you like about working at Nokia?

"Working with skilled persons with a technical background and a multicultural environment."

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

"I would avoid getting in touch with this company at this stage."

What don't you like about working at Nokia?

"The company does not have a clear vision of its future, making it difficult to plan your growth."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"They have to learn what they want from the company."

What do you like about working at Nokia?

"People are friendlier and the work surrounding is excellent for employees."

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

"None at this point I think communications must be dealt with first of all to get the ball rolling in the correct direction."

What don't you like about working at Nokia?

"Better working conditions can possibly be implemented and equipment is always scarce."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Better communications between employees, and management is always a great issue and impacts the work progress."

"Treats employees as valuable assets."

What do you like about working at Nokia?

"Opportunities to grow, employees are treated as valuable assets, global business."

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

"Be open to a lot of travel, build your network."

What don't you like about working at Nokia?

"Overly matrixed organization, lack of product vision by senior management."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Always remember business performance is tied directly to the delighting the consumer."

What do you like about working at Nokia?

"Flexibility to work from where I live while being able to visit and interact with many customers."

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

"The current company, as you may know from the press, is currently in a very major state of reorganization which causes morale to be quite low."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"The current company, as you may know from the press, is currently in a very major state of reorganization which causes morale to be quite low. They need to get past this much quicker then they are."

"Great people handcuffed by bureaucracy and lack of visionary leadership."

What do you like about working at Nokia?

"Respectful culture and balanced work life. Multicultural environment. Smart people."

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

"Be patient; decisions can take quite a long time in this environment."

What don't you like about working at Nokia?

"Bureaucracy has accreted over the years and slows everything down too much. Corporate leadership seems to lack vision."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Reverse these characteristics: too averse to risk, too cautious, and too deferential to carriers' requirements."

What do you like about working at Nokia?

"I get to work with cool tools, interact with smart people. I get to work with people from many departments. I like that my job has very varied responsibilities. I like my boss, who has provided training for me."

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

"If you are driven and inspired easily, this is a great place to work because of the cool technologies used. If you are not inspired easily, then the opportunities can help make it so. This is a great place to work if you love IT."

What don't you like about working at Nokia?

"I don't get enough vacation days - maybe because it is located in America."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I would make an optional flex-time work week. A flexible work week would be best."

"My first best company. :)"

What do you like about working at Nokia?

"Working culture and the employee benefits. It is very much transparent at all levels."

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

"Best company to work. So try your best to get into the organization."

What don't you like about working at Nokia?

"Career growth is very slow. The salary increments are not so good."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Should look at the deliverables of the person and check the opportunities for the growth."

What do you like about working at Nokia?

"It's good to work in a great company such as Nokia Siemens Networks."

What do you like about working at Nokia?

"Learning and growing and collaborating with colleagues and experiencing something new."

What don't you like about working at Nokia?

"I would prefer to work for a small or middle size company as the role of individual is more clear."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Invest on the young bright people and believe them in what they do."

"Working with Nokia Networks was a very challenging and rewarding experience."

What do you like about working at Nokia?

"Nokia Networks had an open door policy that made easy to interact with management."

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

"Wanting to learn a lot from Telco industry was very valuable."

What don't you like about working at Nokia?

"Sometimes the amount of work was not disclosed with enough time to prepare to accomplish it."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"It was great to work with such open-minded management, which let you grow in those changing times."

"My first experience with a global company worth to work with them."

What do you like about working at Nokia?

"Finnish way of working showed the company was flat, hierarchies did not affect people interactions."

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

"Technical skills in OS, DB and Networking helped me a lot."

What don't you like about working at Nokia?

"Telco company crisis affected performance, and there was some disorganization when expending money in projects."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Keeping that open way of working was very pleasant for me."