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Above-average benefits and work/life balance are the only exceptional things about working for Nokia

Senior Software Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Nokia for less than 1 year
May 3, 2009
Irving, Texas
3.0
Doesn't Approve of CEO
Pros

Work/Life Balance... you can pretty much name your own hours, and people come and go as they please much of the time.

Benefits are good versus the competition, at least they were back when I joined.

Cons

The Irving campus is so far from Finland, sometimes it seems we might as well be a third party.

There's very little training made available to employees.

You can never travel anymore, even if it would really help the project. No one wants to spend the money.

There's pretty much no leadership in Irving; just a bunch of small groups banded together in the same office building.

The working environment is "open" – a bunch of short-walled cubes that makes it easy to sit around and chat, but hard to get work done.

Advice to Management

Where's the accountability?

How do you know who the bad managers are if no one ever asks?

A survey done once every year is pathetic. If we're a modern company, why not use "the internet" to keep much better tabs on personal and company performance at every level?

Or does anyone really want to know?

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