Symbian Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Symbian

Pros – Good brand to work in the industry. Symbian is widely known brand and a global company. It provides great opportunity to work in one of the most dynamic industry.
Likely to be taken over by Nokia i.e., opportunity to work for the largest mobile phone manufacturer.
Good senior leadership team.

Cons – Compensation.
Far too many changes. There has been number of changes being introduced, employees are losing the commitment to a change - because the change will be replaced by another one!
Limited growth opportunities. Though Symbian is growing, external applicants seems to be given priority compare to internal applicants.
Uncertaininty due to recent news about Symbian Foundation.

Advice to Senior Management – Improve compensation/benefits and manage changes

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Symbian

Pros – The calibre of the majority of other employees. The presence of a strong social programme. A good benefits package. The training opportunities for non-technical competencies is very good and applying and being accepted for training courses is automated and rarely declined. Communication of company news via monthly team briefs is excellent and most welcome.

Cons – The difficulty of removing less than stellar employees. Some of the communication is inconsistent - not all teams get the same level of quality of information cascade.

Advice to Senior Management – Aggressively continue the current programme of improvements. Information in team cascades could be made more interesting and relevant to the engineering teams.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Symbian full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – So much Employee friendly and good pay

Cons – no future for product and any way Nokia closed this product development

Advice to Senior Management – wrong step

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

Former Employee – worked at Symbian

Pros – A very diverse environment with a number of lovely, bright people. The industry is certainly very interesting and the opportunity to work with some truly brilliant industry developers was great.

Cons – Possibly the most dysfunctional work environment I have ever been in. There were intense amounts of gossip and insecurity and generally speaking there was less focus on quality product than there was on personal issues and ego.

Advice to Senior Management – Business decisions made to placate emotionally unstable middle managers or feed someones ego despite the full awareness that is is a bad business decision compared to other options available is foolhardy beyond the telling of it.

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

Former Employee – worked at Symbian

Pros – Get the tech update from different people and be at the tech geek in mobile tech.

Cons – Symbian took over by Nokia...

Advice to Senior Management – Keep the OS still for many phones to come.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Symbian

Pros – Great team feelings. Lots of competent people. Great leadership. Management willing to listen and take comments onboard.

Cons – Hard to get promoted above a certain range. Certain roles have a limited job grade level meaning you have to move to a new and different role to get promoted.

Advice to Senior Management – This is perhaps not really relevent now what Nokia has taken over Symbian: Ensure salaries are in line with the industry.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Symbian

Pros – great work culture, informal atmosphere, good benefits.. and good compensation in India. Although thats a big issue in uk.

Cons – new starters are integrated into the sytem very slow

Advice to Senior Management – nothing much

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend