Used to be a great company to work for, now some units are still great and some not so much. - Senior Manager Nokia Employee Review

3.0
Jun 15, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great benefits, good pay, good opportunities for international assignments, fast paced environment. Mostly small teams and organizations.

Cons

No work/life balance, a lot of conference calls that are in the middle of the night. decisions take forever, mgmt not held accountable for their decisions, intense pressure to deliver with very little time and resources. Good ideas can be dismissed if they don't fit current "emergency". Your job security is not based on how good you are but what you happen to be doing or the team you happen to be in. Top performers get laid off regularly, while lower performing people get to keep their jobs just because they were in a "safe" unit. Everybody wants to have a say on everything but no one wants to have the responsibility / accountability for the decisions.

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5.0
Jul 11, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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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
CEO approval
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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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