Nokia

You will be able to learn the latest and cutting-edge technology.

Average pay (for experienced employees) includes a company car and parking space in the office, with telephone & internet subscriptions.

Very good location and has very good colleagues.

Layoffs occur every 4 to 5 years. When it comes to salary, once you are in a salary band, it is very difficult to get a good raise. To keep the R&D site competitive, management has to keep most engineers in a certain salary band. Because of this, many employees want to move to a better grade to change their salary band, and it is impossible unless you are a crucial resource. Usually, after 5 years, employees start to look around for other positions, which is nearly impossible. Very few move to other internal positions with the same pay. Many managers think that once you are a test/software engineer, you are a test/software engineer for the rest of your life. The same goes for other engineering roles.

Most people who look for career growth after 4 or 5 years in the same position will leave the company after getting tired of trying.

Very few young employees stay with the company longer than 10 years, leaving no experts like in the old times. Please consider career progression as super important, otherwise, there will be a degradation in the quality of the product, and innovation just becomes how good you can copy from the competitor.