Alcatel-Lucent Reviews

Pros

Employee friendly and stress free workplace with lot of opportunities to improve your knowledge. Challenging work will add to your expertise.

Cons

Overall Alcatel-Lucent Lags aggressiveness with other competitors, hasty management decisions are the main reason why the performance is up-to the mark, this affects the employees in the region of compensation benefits offered by the organization.

Advice to Senior Management

Look ahead in technology and be first to dominate the market. Long term decisions are to be adopted over immediate workarounds.

Pros

Big company with important support

Cons

Too much processes, loss of efficiency

Advice to Senior Management

None

Pros

Good work life balance
Learning oppurtunities are more
Salary on market standards.
Work from home option is given
Decent number of paid holiday

Cons

Not much onsite assignments.Only few that too short term.
Promotions based on experience and not on performance and also too late.It takes 7-8 years to become a LEAD.

Advice to Senior Management

nothing.

Pros

the managers are nice , good salary.

Cons

big company bureaucracy and it take a long time to get promotion

Pros

opportunity for professional development by training abroad, career advancement and challenges faced at work, ability to work independently, and so on.

Cons

There are no retirement benefits, no allowances like housing, transport, medicals, and so on. Those are the few i can think of.

Advice to Senior Management

I think there should be some increment in salary, retirement benefits, allowances, like housing, transport and medicals and so on.

Pros

young and dynamic working environment, considering Turkey

Cons

lack of high expertise on the challenges, considering Turkey

Pros

Big company with global reach.
R&D in many different countries.
Exciting work and good development at some of the divisions.

Cons

The company hasn't been profitable for many years.
The lack of profitability causes depressed share price.
The above two factors affect the compensations of the workers negatively.
Frequent re-organization causes inefficiency.

Advice to Senior Management

Do not let profitability affects the compensations of the workers negatively.
Frequent re-organization is probably necessary, but it should be donw without causing inefficiency.

Pros

good people are still around the company.

Cons

depressing to work in this type of environment.

Advice to Senior Management

If you are looking for stability this may be for you.

Pros

Benefits are generally good, and the individuals who work there have a good work ethic (for the most part) and are knowledgeable

Cons

Because of the down turn in telecommunications and the recent economic gloom, cost cutting is prevalent - to the point that people who are retained are treated like cattle.

Advice to Senior Management

Stop yapping on Engage and having question and answer sessions where the answers are essentially "no comment". Less talk, more action.

Pros

Alcatel-lucent is a good company for the people without a lots of experience, Most of the people there are very nice, helpful and friendsly.

Cons

There are too many processes, Each project has a lot of delay each step. Everybody wants to give some comments and nobody can give a clear decision,

Advice to Senior Management

To make the work, meeting and process... more efficient is quite important. And have some punishment for the people who can not finish the work on time,