Nokia

Great atmosphere.

There is a lot to be learned for people with no experience or interns.

Benefits:

• Tax break (the right to use author way of tax reporting)

Salaries are lower than offered by other companies in Kraków.

Limited possibilities of competency development; no approvals for attending technical conferences.

There are no new things to learn, except company-specific stuff, after working 2-3 years in projects.

Very poor work culture. The most important thing for management is to meet project deadlines, which are set unrealistically (overtime/weekend work is present in almost every project, and from time to time it's even obligatory). Almost all projects are delayed, and exit criteria are descoped to meet project KPIs/milestones.

Huge attrition of experienced engineers, who are being replaced by working students. There is a low number of engineers with > 5 years of experience.

Complicated organizational structure (line managers, project managers, product managers, program owner managers, product owners, etc.).

Severe structural changes (should be called revolutions) performed 2-3 times in a year.

Try to keep the most experienced people within the company (pay raise? Investing in training / engineer development).

Try to stabilize the company structure for some time.

Make project development more realistic.