Nokia reviews

4.0

81% would recommend to a friend

(18,649 total reviews)
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73% approve of CEO

63% positive business outlook

Nokia has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 18,649 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Nokia employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Telecommunications industry (3.6 stars).

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1.0
Jun 26, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Colleagues are nice and helpful, and many of them are smart and excellent on their research.

Cons

Too much effort on selling immature research to business units. Unbelievable amount of time is spent in presentation and demo preparations which end up to nothing all the time, and relative little in solving the actual problem at hand. Too many management layers compared to researchers actually get the job done. Poor management as you can notice a large amount of duplication of work across teams in Bell Labs as well as in R&D of Nokia due to lack of communication, or simply because different managers want a piece of the pie of the next Big Thing as mentioned in another review. Salary is not bad at start but not after two years as it is almost not increasing.

2.0
Jan 1, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great people with lots of experience and skills. Access to wealth of online content and learning with flexibility of working hours and location a major plus.

Cons

Lack of opportunities due to ongoing restructuring.

2.0
Nov 8, 2018

Research Engineer

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

On the upside I would put the relative freedom that you have in selecting the projects you would like to work on, and the approach that you will follow in tackling them. Also there is a good level of respect and humility in the work place. People are kind and helpful.

Cons

- Management is basically comprised of ex-researches, with poor management skills. - Although there is an effort to connect Bell Labs with the real word challenges faced in the market, this effort unfortunately falls short. - An unbelievable amount of time is spent in presentation and demo preparations, and relative little in solving the problem at hand. The more buzzwords you put on your presentations, the better. Often the presentations are misleading, because they make claims that don't hold, or omit to mention important limitations. - There is a large amount of duplication of work across teams, due to lack of communication, or simply because different managers want a piece of the pie of the next Big Thing (e.g. analytics, ML, Cloud) - Compensation is average, and it increases in-pace (that is slowly) with the industry average. In other words, if you are a smart engineer/researcher, you are better off in another company.

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