Alcatel-Lucent Interview Questions & Reviews in Mountain View, CA

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Interviewed Jun 2011 in Mountain View, CA (took 1 week)

I was interviewed by the hiring Manager himself.
I answered well. But since I didn't have any Computer Science background along with programming and scripting experience, I think it didn't go further.

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HOW A PING SEQUENCE TAKES PLACE BETWEEN THE FOLLOWING topology or any similar topology :
Host A ---------Router 1---------Router2----------Host B..
Now, if you ping ( send any packet ) from Host A to Host B, what all happens ?

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Explain about Hub, Switch and Routers. How are these 3 different from each other. He further asked me in detail about breaking up of collision domain by switches and what happens in Hubs?
He added if four hosts are connected to four ports of a Hub and and four hosts are connected to a switch and if a host wants to send something, than what happens?

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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.

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Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Oct 2010 in Mountain View, CA (took a day)

I was asked questions unrelated to my area of work. Though my graduation was in Information Science Discipline, I was asked Transistors, Gates, Assembly language programming

I was asked puzzles to solve.

There some very good questions asked though.

I didn't like the attitude of some of the people who Interviewed.