Bureaucracy and politics are a company core competency, I'm surprised anything gets shipped. - Senior Software Engineer Nokia Employee Review

1.0
Jun 15, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

Good benefits and a pretty liberal PTO policy (two weeks vacation time plus one week PTO, plus two weeks sick time).

Cons

Information from upper management isn't shared with line-level employees, so you're constantly hit with crises or policy changes from out of the blue. There is so much bureaucracy that it takes a minimum of three weeks to close even the simplest of bugs. There's also so much internal turmoil: reorgs every six months or fewer, constant threat of layoffs.

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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
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Pros

Decent starting salary, good benefits, generous PTO

Cons

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