Saving is more important than making it
Saving is more important than making it
I cannot think of any.
I would rather be unemployed than work for Nokia.
I worked for Nokia years ago and was transferred to another software company, which then fired everyone on my team.
I got a job with Comptel, and sadly, Nokia bought Comptel. They ruined the company, and many people, including me, left soon after. Nokia also started firing many people.
When I was first fired thanks to Nokia outsourcing, I didn't even look at what jobs Nokia was offering. So, basically, I would rather have been unemployed than work for Nokia again.
Nokia is an awful place to work. The company focuses on huge network deals to operators, so the quality of the products and employing good people is not important. People are relentlessly and regularly fired from "high cost" countries in western Europe, and jobs move to India, China, or eastern Europe. They did this when I worked there the first time around and started doing it again with Comptel products. Happily, I'm not staying around to see what else happens at Nokia Finland.
You only have to look at the drop in numbers in Finland, where there are now only 6,000 employees, and they are firing another 350 in early 2019.
I do not know one person in Comptel who says the purchase by Nokia has been a good thing. One of my other colleagues who left wrote on LinkedIn that the company has a culture where saving money is more important than making it, which totally sums up the Nokia culture.
It was horrible to work in a company with that attitude, and I'm so glad to have left that behind. There are not even people at HR to contact (even when resigning); you use one of the dozens of tools they have at Nokia to submit inquiries, even to HR.
They were even launching an HR chatbot so that your reply would not come from a real person. This state of affairs meant that my resignation request wasn't processed for about 10 days, thanks to endless tools and no HR to actually talk to.
Find yourself a job with a nicer company.
The lower managers get fired in the job cuts also, and they find it harder to find new jobs.
So leave now while you have a chance.
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