Nokia

• Benefits
• Good place to start for students (they hire basically anybody)

I've been working here for 2.5 years and I see a gradual decline in this company.

Upper management pretends to make changes by changing department names or merging/splitting them, introducing new tools that either make programmers' lives way harder than they have to be or are deprecated in a few months.

Line managers are focused on bug reports and are convinced that the best employees are those who make the most bug fixes—which are also the people introducing those many bugs. So, if you write good code and have no bug fixes to implement, your manager most likely won't even notice you exist.

Mine has no idea what features we are working on.

I think that attitude of management placed Nokia behind competitors, and I don't think it'll change any time soon.

There's no point in giving one. It's not welcome in Nokia, and my teammates, after giving some advice to the line manager, heard, "You should think more positively."