Nokia reviews

4.0

81% would recommend to a friend

(18,652 total reviews)
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74% approve of CEO

64% positive business outlook

Nokia has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 18,652 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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2.0
Feb 2, 2023

Spineless leaders and a toxic work culture

Anonymous employee
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Pros

1. Hybrid work environment 2. Online learning via EDU

Cons

1. Top leaders lack vision (CEO/Presidents and VPs) 2. Nepotism in hiring - more than 95% of internal roles at senior levels (JG 12 and above) are pre-selected based on personal relationships rather than competence, leadership and skills 3. Strong culture of Bullying and intimidation by leaders (including CEO, Presidents (MN/Strategy) and almost all VPs (CFO and MN) 4. Poor compensation structure

1.0
Mar 14, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Trying to think of one...

Cons

Appalling company who appear to be failing rapidly, with huge cuts in team size that I am being forced to make. The usual BS about company values of growth and respect, which are being ignored totally. People treated as a commodity, rapid downsizing of 10s of percents of team sizes, risking significant order intake losses running into 10s of millions of euro. Utter madness. Senior management stinks - focussed entirely on cost saving and not on revenue generation - even in the sales team!

1.0
Jan 28, 2018

Mixed bag of a company

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Core Technology and focus on the SP (Telco) market and adjacent IP related markets. Nokia as a mobile operator is compelling, focused to deliver on the promise for their top 40 global customers. This BU, though extremely process orientated, has a recipe that works. Caution the entrepreneur .

Cons

Unfortunately, anything outside of mobile is riddled by x Alcatel and Nortel people in middle to top management roles. The Company tries to recruit new blood but after3 years most have left due to the poor cliquey technical sales management, who frankly do not have a clue. They know how to manage up but not run business and engage the field facing sales staff. Nokia appears to have a strategy to eliminate any job in western, Northern Europe and move it to India or Hungary. So you work with a virtual team in a different TZ than do not understand well the local language customs, customers. The company will survive as there is not much competition left and mistakenly the EU thinks Nokia is still European but that boat left with most staff now in India or USA. Nokia is not for the change agent, make a difference type of person.

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