How To Get An IT Job In Canada: College Stories 5/6 — co-op@Nokia

As I mentioned last time, the second co-op story is about Nokia. Before I start, let me show you where we are at now.

Semester 1 → Semester 2 → Semester 3 → Co-op 1 → Co-op 2 → Semester 4
(click on the previous story if you want to check out)

You probably know of Nokia that used to make a solid cellphone. Nokia is now more focusing on networking infrastructure toward 5G. Here are reasons why I wanted to join Nokia.

• Located in Kanata: Ottawa is a huge city and many big tech companies are located in west side of Ottawa called Kanata including Cisco, Ericsson, Ciena, Blackberry, Ford, and so on. This would be a great chance to work around them.
• Networking: My program is heavily focused on Java and we don’t learn other fields that much as it’s only two year program. Luckily, there’s a course called ‘Networking Programming’ on the third semester and this comes to me fascinating about how networking works behind the scene. I was interested in IoT and 5G at that time.
• Big Company: Nokia is definitely one of big companies in Ottawa. If you can get…