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Great People, Horrible Mid Management

Senior Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Nokia for 4 years
March 11, 2014
San Diego, California
3.0
Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookNo CEO Opinion
Pros

Decent Pay Good Internal Opportunities Smart Engineers Senior Management is sharp Embracing Modern Cloud Computing Lots of Exciting Challenges Decent Project and Training Budgets

Cons

Mapping Group is run like it's the 1990s.

Mid-level management is peppered with career politicians.

Projects start, and 75% of the time is spent in meetings discussing them, 20% planning work, and 5% is spent building the product. Inevitably, the projects fail, and scapegoats are found.

HR is in a time warp when it comes to modern skills and compensation details.

Advice to Management

Evaluate almost all mid-level managers, especially the (former) Product Management Org.

Reevaluate HR Policies

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