Nokia (Former Infinera) SDE-1 Review - Software Development Engineer (SDE) -1 Nokia Employee Review

4.0
Apr 21, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Good work life balance. Supportive, encouraging team. Leave count.

Cons

Hike calculation seems unfair. Decent chance of getting boring, not so useful work. Now that Nokia is merged with Infinera, salary components and/or hikes will reduce further.

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5.0
Jul 11, 2026
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Pros

Great work life ballance, excellent benefits, extremely generous amounts of PTO.

Cons

Pay is below market rate.

3.0
Jul 12, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

The core technologists and Bell Labs are great to work with. As a Finland based company, their benefits packages are better than benefits from typical American companies.

Cons

The brain drain in Operations and OSS is shocking and only getting worse. Salespeople are lying to customers to make sales happen, only to further embarrass everyone involved with incompetent delivery. The push for Data Center and the $1Billion Nvidia investment for AI-in-Everything makes Nokia the latest "Tech Bro", AI-First disaster.

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