Nokia

Good work-life balance, nice canteen.

It is impossible to progress for technical people.

Maybe in the old days it was possible, but now it is impossible.

Nokia looks after management types but not the technical-minded types.

Lots of hangers-on at Nokia. People who have been there a long time on good salaries but hardly do anything useful.

Treat and look after the technical people, otherwise the company will suffer.

Most of the new technical people are dissatisfied with the unfairness in salaries.

If someone is clearly better, harder working, and more productive, it should get noticed.

It's very annoying working amongst manager types (experienced owners, project managers, scrum masters) who do no design or coding but get much higher salaries.

Bottom line: If A does more than B, start to take notice.

It's a bad situation since no new technical grads or young technical engineers aspire to work at Nokia because they all know Nokia only looks after the managers.