Nokia

The company is growing at a rapid pace.

New customers, more business, and new technology and requirements.

No scarcity of work (not applicable for some teams or projects).

No visible difference is made between permanent and contract employees.

Cab facility is provided, both to and fro.

The intern/student trainee strength is good, and the conversion rate from intern to full-time employee is also good.

No restrictions on websites.

Wi-Fi data can be used on mobiles on campus.

Vibrant employees, a strong campus, and high fresher/lateral hiring.

There is no hard and fast rule or too many procedures to follow; these are advantages and disadvantages.

Even though the company has celebrated 150 years of its existence, it is still years behind on many fronts.

No landline or high-end desk phones are used at desks, which leads to too much dependency on emails, in-person discussions, and meetings.

Managers and, in fact, mostly team members are pulled into in-person meetings, which heavily affects productivity.

Teleconferences can be done, but the traditional methods of stand-up meetings and in-person meetings are used.

Mobiles are provided to employees, but this is in no way a productive substitute for landlines/high-end desk phones.

There is an absolute shortage of meeting rooms, with the number of resources doubling and tripling in the past 3 years.

The building facility has not been scaled up in parallel to hiring, which leads to a lack of place to sit and work.

Meeting rooms and other open areas are converted to ad-hoc temporary work stations.

The initial trainings are not detailed, and it will be a tough task for new joiners who do not have any work experience to know how to get things done.

No directional training is provided, and too much self-learning is expected.

There is too much dependency on manual information.

The system and tool-generated information is prone to heavy errors.

The system-driven changes also do not get embedded in the system perfectly.

There is no set process followed, and this is one of the biggest concerns.

Workload is high, and even managers are unable to sit and discuss the problems faced by reportees, which leads to an inability to catch attrition early.

Not using high-end desk phones to do conference calls reduces productivity by about 80%. Even mid- and small-sized companies rely on teleconferencing rather than manual meetings.

Wi-Fi strength is reduced as the employee strength is too high for the existing building.

The emails are not responded to in time, especially by senior managers, citing lack of time as the reason.

Guess the outlook mail service is not required in this company, as managers and team heads do not reply to emails. Most of the things are verbally or chat confirmed, again using the traditional method of communication.

Heavy dependency on manual information as the system-generated information is prone to errors.

The team heads or managers do not take ownership of their own work.

The company may be selling high-end and cutting-edge technology products, but ensure that instead of relying on age-old traditional methods, you follow the new-age setup inside the company as well.

We need to first upgrade ourselves internally so that we can be competent enough with our competitors and sustain our clients.

If we do not change, the company may lose its steam in the long run.