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Nokia India R&D Center: a place full of low-quality engineers

Senior Software Engineer
Former Employee
Worked at Nokia for less than 1 year
October 24, 2010
Bengaluru, Karnataka
2.0
Doesn't Recommend
Pros
  • Very good work-life balance (sometimes more towards the life side!)
  • A good ecosystem integrated well into the headquarters (Finland)
Cons
  • Rampant recruitment by lowering quality bars at every level (from senior management to software engineers).

  • I have worked with software engineers who could not write a 'for loop' properly at Nokia Bangalore; I have no idea how they got recruited.

  • Poor leadership and management skills of middle-level managers, who have been recruited from services companies and whose mindset has not changed from viewing the headquarters (Finland) as just a 'client'.

  • Poor accountability due to frequent reorganizations.

Advice to Management

May be close down the Bangalore center and start it all over again with a focus on hiring top-quality personnel.

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