Nokia Vimercate (Milan area, Italy) - Senior Hardware Design Engineer Nokia Employee Review

4.0
2 May 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Very high level employees and work opportunities, good work life balance. Overall good company.

Cons

HR are really not prepared at all for such a huge company: they blame employees when they come with a request/questions. They feel like God, but they aren't (especially considering how high is the request for engineers and the competition among companies). Access to company courses is limited to 'family-members' and are given based on personal preferences of HR (there should be a shortlist of all applying employees with meritocratic parameters to evaluate which should have access - no way to arrange it, not sure why it is so difficult). No commuter-friendly policy: most of the people are coming from Milan and they are not supported by the company with company bus/commuting compensation. Low salaries and lower grow opportunities compared to other companies in the Milan area.

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Pros

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Cons

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