Nokia

good colleagues, really helpful and nurturing towards beginners flexible working hours WFH good work-life balance if you know to manage it/impose it (not overpromising, making sure you only put in the required 40 hours) good bonuses and benefits

• Salary isn't competitive.

• Raises don't even keep up with inflation.

• Minuscule (~4%) raises, even for top performers.

• Once hired, don't expect your salary to keep up with the market or even with your newly-hired colleagues. It got to the point where the best engineer on the team was making way less than the newly-hired engineers.

• No attempts at rewarding and retaining valuable employees.

• Hiring three students to make up for the engineer who left because he wouldn't get a decent raise.

• Manager isn't technical and only has high-level knowledge of the project, yet he's the one giving bonuses and raises.

• A lot of bureaucracy.

• The career opportunities are given to people who've been at Nokia for decades. Skill doesn't seem to be a factor.

• Some managers impose working at the office.

• After about one year, students are treated about the same as engineers. Same responsibilities but drastically different benefits (engineers have performance bonuses, raises, and make at least double what the students make).

• Students don't qualify for company-wide bonuses.

• Being proactive and hardworking rarely gets you more than a pat on the back and a gift voucher.