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I worked there -- as an outside consultant -- quite a few times. It was a pretty ordinary, meh, office building. What I remember most vividly was sitting there in the office with two Nokia people, one quite senior, when the N8 was released, and seeing them watching the release video with lots of excitement -- until they realized the darn thing was running _symbian_. Everyone in the Maemo group thought it was (going to be) running Maemo -- every single engineer!

I had a wonderful time, but what a broken company...



Feels like every person working in the building was a consultant. (different coloured badges iirc)

There was an anecdote being sent around about how it "was the most expensive clock application ever to exist" due to rewrites.

I agree, lots of great people working there, but I think very little leadership.




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