Alcatel-Lucent Reviews

Pros

Everyday is a learning growing experience

Cons

Sometimes its difficult to integrate with all the disparate groups/teams

Advice to Senior Management

provide a financial incentive for disparate sales teams to work together. Some teams are very guarded with their accounts (and rightfully so) but I financial incentive may break down the walls.

Pros

flexibility
work and life balance.
training opportunities
excellent benefits

Cons

challenging industry with high customer concentration
several layers of management
too many process and organizational changes

Pros

Training available on the Alcatel-Lucent University website

Cons

Stagnant growth in terms of promotions
Unethical conduct of some of the HR personnel (Bullying of employees)
Bad compensation for overtime and extra hours worked

Advice to Senior Management

The way the Alcatel-Lucent Nigeria Office is being run is very discouraging to employees. A lot of employees have been frustrated out of the company due to improper management on some levels.

Pros

it is a good company. i worked for about 2 years

Cons

nothing much. less salary offered

Advice to Senior Management

should be flexible and consider pay issues

Pros

Surrounded by people with a lot of experience who are willing to share their expertise and help you develop professionally.

Cons

Older group of employees can make it hard on the younger folks.

Advice to Senior Management

Great leadership and management. Personnel are always available to answer your questions and get your ideas. Management is very good with communication

Pros

nice and brilliant people to work with.
great work environment
friendly work culture
have opportunity to study innovative techniques.
have good job security

Cons

personal growing space is relatively narrow compared to start-up company.
personal contribution and recognition is relatively small since most engineers only work on a specific part of a large system

Advice to Senior Management

it was nice that I had experience to lead a small group and learned how to set up a reasonable plan for whole team, coordinate the work among team members,

Pros

Working on various Technologies and leading communication and networking industries
Well supportive management and best compensation
Well place to career advancement
Place to say "No", when you really want to say.

Cons

Few tasks are not accounted
Jobs comes from beyond your responsibility

Advice to Senior Management

Need more tools for productivity and learning from expert

Pros

Great Benefits
Growth Opportunities
Global Interaction / Opportunities
Family First attitude

Cons

Unstable Industry
Big, global company, so strategic decisions often come slowly
Sometimes hard to know who to get in touch with - (need to manage personal network closely)

Advice to Senior Management

Focus on dynamic, expedient decision making for smaller items, and don't change priorities soon after starting long-term projects as this leads to waste when projects are frozen or scrapped.

Pros

Age of Company, Size of company, depth and breadt of product portfolio, research and development budget, Bell-Labs, the LTE Carrier Segment, Optical solutions, and products to support large enterprises that want to own their own networks

Cons

Poor stock performance, no real team feeling, poor product communication, no raises, no real growth plans, lots of change, lots of tunroe

Advice to Senior Management

Get more involved, every division should be working in unison for the benefit of the company as a whole, not solely to the benefit of their individual divisisions. Tighter product integration between business units. Develop a stronger distribution and partner channel.

Pros

Work - Personal life balance

Cons

Not a motivating and aggressive crowd

Advice to Senior Management

Be more focused and technical