It will get worse and worse here. I have no intention of worrying about every next round and whether I will survive another one. I started looking for new options a few months ago. I don’t know how successful you are in looking for a new job, but I’m doing badly.
What scares me the most and what I have noticed is that competencies and experience have less and less value and what it is becoming more important is whom you know. I may be wrong, but that’s a feeling I get.
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I got the call for contractor position every day, but I told them no more work for Nokia.
Definitely Nokia is no more a good company to work for and specially so for contractors. I wish no one joins as contractor
Better join the right Buddy club at NOKIA, otherwise its off with your head. Knowledge means zero
NOK does not value experience and knowledge. During a town hall, one of their executives was asked about what makes Nokia a great company. The obvious answer is our employees and the talent etc. No, he responded that it's "out processes" that make Nokia stand out. Well, Nokia has stood out and lost a lot of business with Verizon and others. How is that 5G working for you?
And a few years ago they came up with a plan to get themselves back on track with 5G, they would hire a large number of college students in Finland. Great, who trains them, and how long before they know what they are doing? In fact, having a large number of people to train is likely to slow things down.
Glad I left when I did. The company does not care a fig about its workers especially US workers. High cost region, high cost region. At one time it was a high-profit region but it isn't any longer.
It seems experience and knowledge is mostly seen as outdated knowledge and not acknowledging that experience means proven skills to being able to constantly update knowledge as IT industry moves fast enough for anyone in the industry not to constantly learning something new.
Unfortunately it still seems number of people is seen as solution also and only low cost countries make it cost efficient to hire in bulk. They also assume it is faster to update employee knowledge by hiring people in bulk and usually fresh out of universities.
While I welcome fresh hires, it should be acknowledged bulk hires of people with limited practical experience lowers productivity of existing staff as they time is spent on mentoring and not doing their work or learning something new themselves.
For this mentoring the experienced staff members are rewarded with layoffs due to lowered productivity that were actually at least in part result of short-sighted human resource decisions made by mid-level managers that have gotten too detach from real daily work and only deals with resources based on numbers in some Excel.