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Rouanne is out, Tervonen is out - who is next ? There is still a pile of dic---ads with no f---ing clue about R&D, busy playing their political games.

How's the job market for folks who recently got RIFed from Nokia Wireless in USA? If you found a job, which company is hiring and in what state?

Any action tomorrow?

Nokia CEO: 5G will start to launch in 2019 and 2020 https://www.cnbc.com/video/2018/11/09/nokia-ceo-5g-will-start-to-launch-in-2019-and-2020.html

https://hothardware.com/news/intel-architectural-summit-set-early-december "It will also be interesting to see if Intel discusses Cannon Lake. Intel's transition to 10nm has been challenging to say the least, with numerous delays pushing back volume... — read more 

Will there be any Nokia Layoffs in 2019?

Don't you just love it when the official story is that major cuts in annual operating expenses will come from a variety of areas, when we all know they are simply looking to reduce the headcount as much as they can? Variety of areas my behind... — read more 

Let's face it, at the end of the day, only the new Dallas location and the new California location will survive with about 2000 employees in Dallas and 1000 employees in CA. You don't have to go far to figure out Nokia's plan, just look at what they... — read more 

NEVER TOO EARLY TO PLAN AHEAD MORE SITE CLOSURES MAYBE

Where is Nokia with the $1.4 Billion in cost savings by end of 2018? How many more people cuts for the remaining of the year?

These wireless oam modules would be transfer to other sites soon. They are campaigning to get some 5G related jobs inside the company. No idea of the progress of 5G development process. Is it possible that they can find some 5G job internally?

250 employees cut already, another 250 set to go. The consolidation related to Alcatel acquisition continues. Who knows how many more we'll hear about before it's finally done. One would think that two years would be enough, but I guess Nokia will... — read more 

Must work weekends and late evenings with no pay, no salary increase, not even a cup of free coffee (forget coffee, they don't even have filtered drinking water out of the fountain) = people leaving on their own without severance. If you don't treat... — read more 

Does anybody know how many layoffs can we expect as part of the sale of Nokia's IP video business? I know it was said that majority of employees will move to the new company, but does anybody really believe that?... — read more 

Why are there still so many H1B employees working for Nokia USA when there are so many layoffs in Nokia USA? Every month, there are so many applications for renewals or hire posted for H1B - even in software development. There are so many qualified... — read more 

Three Year, $3.5 Billion contract with T-Mobile for 5G Nokia products and services. Great! Now tell me about all the penalties tied to it. It's a money making win for T-mobile the way I see it.

What do all those people (virtual and non-virtual) in Global Services and COO do anyway?

The team is not hit by layoff after merging with ex-ALU wireless employees. Are there plans/heresays to layoff some(or all) beijing wirless OAM employees? We should prepare for the worst.

I've heard Nokia is planning more layoffs and that California will be hit hard sometime next month. The guy who told me this has been wrong before, so I'm hoping somebody here knows more about this (or can hopefully tell me outright this is not... — read more 

Being there had first hand experience with those Nokia stuffs. It would be hardly to believe that Nokia won’t go down like it’s mobile division in the past. Management are arrogant and only care about numbers (who knows where and how it comes from)... — read more 

It has been years since Nokia decided to go with own SoC designs instead of relying on TI. What we have except no modern 4G/5G SoC, plethora of HW bugs and new products that cannot match old products performance ? Everything that SoC touches, turns... — read more 

Many talented Nokia engineers in highly skilled customer-facing positions for LTE customers in the U.S. were let go, at the New Jersey site in particular, on 7/19/2018. Any further details about what’s going on?? In January this year the System... — read more 

There are so so many employees works on wireless OAM product. They even invent internal features just to keep headcount. The management teams even recruit to keep their positions in case of future cuts.

I'm likely to be offered a job with the Nuage team ? Is it doing good ? How is the team compared to the rest of Nokia ?

More and more people have started talking about imminent layoffs in US region as soon as next month, so I was wondering if anybody here had any more news on that? It's really hard to get any kind of real info on this outside the usual "it's coming... — read more 

Don't Expect 5G Deals, Orange Tells Usual Suppliers http://www.lightreading.com/mobile/5g/dont-expect-5g-deals-orange-tells-usual-suppliers/d/d-id/740042? Orange Deputy CEO Gervais Pellissier has warned Ericsson, Huawei and Nokia they should not... — read more 

Nokia Suri talks to Trump. Listen starting at 5 min into the video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rLR4ipaY9M Suri says 15K people in USA and strongest R&D setup is in USA with half focused on R&D and the other half 4g, 5g, customer services. Trump... — read more 

March 22 Nokia Layoffs, Cuts Any News for North America regions? Please post

Employees in NJ and IL will be cut layoff laid-off in Systems Architecture. Those engineers working on 5G Architecture. (No, you didn't read it wrong - it's "5G".) I guess Nokia has enough people working on 5G product outside of USA (in China... — read more 

Nokia stock is still down (-0.1%) even after the news headline "Nokia signs its first official 5G equipment deal with NTT DoCoMo". While Ericsson stock goes up by 5.7% after news headline "Ericsson 5G Radio Dot Gives Big Boost to Indoor Coverage".

https://www.nokia.com/fi_fi/uutiset/tiedotteet/2018/01/12/nokian-yhteistoimintaneuvottelut-paatokseen Use the google chrome translator.

Verizon has picked Samsung and Ericsson for 5G Trials. Why isn't Nokia in these trials? Is it because Nokia's 5G equipment doesn't meet Verizon's standard? If the development of 5G was done by former ALU folks in MH NJ (who have build a top notch... — read more 

Nokia Layoffs - Murray Hill, NJ USA on Jan 25 - not sure exactly which departments but in wireless Any chance somebody has heard something more about this? It's a bit too specific to be just wild guessing, or at least I think so. Any additional info... — read more 

2018 Layoffs - where, how many, when, which department - please post - it is anonymous

There were many layoffs in NJ/IL/TX last year but I didn't see any listed in the WARN notice for New Jersey/Texas/IL USA. Doesn't Nokia have to report the cuts to each of those states? http://lwd.dol.state.nj.us/labor/lwdhome/warn/2017/warnindex.html... — read more 

Ericsson Replaces Major Rival as DT Supplier in 5G Deal In a major blow to one of the world's biggest equipment vendors, Ericsson has replaced either China's Huawei or Finland's Nokia as one of Deutsche Telekom's two main suppliers of radio access... — read more 

Nokia Murray Hill NJ USA -- Any 5G development work coming to Murray Hill NJ USA? We have many talented folks who have done development for 2G/3G/4G. Is Nokia going to just throw this valuable talent away?

Nokia Please remember - H1B Visa employees should be cut before USA Citizen employees doing the same job especially with 2018 layoffs coming soon. Where the H1B employee is located within USA should not matter since majority of the jobs can be done... — read more 

If Nokia wants to win - 1) it needs to understand it's USA base customers (top 4 customer who bring in much of the revenue) 2) it needs to make it's employees happy, proud, and passionate about the work/product they are producing. Right now the... — read more