Nokia Siemens Networks Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Nokia Siemens Networks full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – innovation is possible
Salaries are competitive

Cons – turbulent due to financial issue of parent companies
Sometimes unclear strategies

Advice to Senior Management – Find a clear strategy and execute..

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Nokia Siemens Networks full-time for more than a year

Pros – plenty of opportunites within the organization, systems and processes are very well defined

Cons – salary needs to be bit more transparent for the employee to find out where they stand and what they need to do to acheive realistic targets

Advice to Senior Management – compensate

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Nokia Siemens Networks full-time for more than a year

Pros – trying to make things better

Cons – will it survive, prpobably too big to fail

Advice to Senior Management – ok

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Nokia Siemens Networks full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – There are many opportunities to further your career at NSN if you are willing to go the extra mile. Thecompany has many technical experts which is testament to its commitment to training. Good people, good training and endless opportunities.

Cons – Too friendly and not aggressive enough for a company in such a competitive market. Also seems to lack direction at times.

Advice to Senior Management – A more aggressive approach to the market would be a great help.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Nokia Siemens Networks full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Progressive HR policies, open career progression, lots of talented employees, fine engineering heritage, open internal communications, flexible working

Cons – NSN is under huge squeeze from Chinese competition and has chronic problems of profitability. Undergoing more restructuring now - there is typically a reorg every 6 months

Advice to Senior Management – Take bolder action

– I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Nokia Siemens Networks

Pros – NSN has a large market share and has a good customer base. It has the potential to exploit these and succeed.

Cons – There can be a gap between the senior leadership and regular employees. This can translate into a problem with communication of vision, direction and purpose.

Advice to Senior Management – Break down the barriers between the business units; exploiting the synergies between them has the potential to bring big wins to the company.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Nokia Siemens Networks

Pros – 1. Excellent training and competence development plan
2. Bi annual review of comptence and target setting for professional growth
3. Oppertunities to work on high profile projects and learn cutting edge technologies
4. NSN's experience sells alot in telecom industry

Cons – 1. Below average salaries and compensation benefits
2. Promotion oppertunities and minimal and career progression is slow

Advice to Senior Management – You should really put some focus on retaining the skilled and talented staff by offering them oppertunites to promote in higher and more challenging roles otherwise they leave the company after gaining experience and their new employers would benefit from their skills

Former Employee – worked at Nokia Siemens Networks

Pros – not many... but has lot of opportunities to jump around in other departments.

Cons – clumsy, very large, no employee to employer contact

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Nokia Siemens Networks

Pros – Really happy I enjoyed NSN, it was a good choice I made in joining them.

Very good work life balance with a trust based working relationship with management. Allows you to be flexible when you need to do the odd personal thing during the day.

Very good benefits.

Respect between peers is valued highly.

A very good name to have on your CV to advance a career.

Good learning opportunity's.

Cons – Very bad new started induction. You really are left to fend for yourself to get what you need.

Not all, but some of HR are very defensive and unhelpful...if you ask a question the reply if often not to friendly and has an overall feel of being annoyed that you have troubled them....not all are like this there is the odd good egg to, but as I say quite a few battle axes who resent you for expecting them to provide a little.

Slight concerns as the company's profits were not so great this year and a lot of that is due to late project delivery, I hope they don't see the answer to this as making a cull on employees with redundancy rounds.

Advice to Senior Management – If you need to shave elements of the company to bump up profits don't do the knee jerk staff reduction, instead look at how projects are delivered and what is causing delays and burning up cash.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Nokia Siemens Networks

Pros – Usual benefits, pretty good environment, good infrastructure, good reputation

Cons – too hierarchical, too many managers, confusing management structure - al l of which lead to a culture where responsibility can be seen as someone else's.

Advice to Senior Management – Simplify the company structure (even more), shed some management layers and let us get on with delivering world class products and services.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend