Alcatel-Lucent Reviews

Pros

Professional Growth opportunities in Wireless Networking.

Cons

The merger Alactel and Lucent is still underway. It is not been executed well.

Advice to Senior Management

none.

Pros

Flexi timings....
Have lot of times to spend for personal life.
Not much work

Cons

Learnings will be very less.

Pros

Good place to learn technologies

Cons

Management does not recognise/credit hard work of efforts

Advice to Senior Management

Empower all employee

Pros

great peopleto work with, a lot of fun tring to create thing, the boss is a really nice guy and well basically it's fun being with this sort of laid back but serious company

Cons

the clients are sometimes idiots, but what can you do about that? an the human resources department works really slow, other than that nothing really

Advice to Senior Management

none at the moment

Pros

Great place to work, good benefits, flexible work environment, treats employees with respect,

Cons

Company needs to concentrate more on new technologies

Advice to Senior Management

None

Pros

Learn the latest new technology.

Cons

Politics plays an important role in the office. I can not bear.

Advice to Senior Management

The same cons as above.

Pros

-Great pay, good learning experience, HR is always there for you and confidentiality is valued, lots of great opportunities ahead for the firm.

Cons

Alcatel-Lucent operated under a silo mentality and never really encouraged a friendly atmosphere, which was somewhat depressing. Benefits were lacking and the people all kept to themselves, unless you have a decent manager

Advice to Senior Management

Encourage more engagement with other employees and the relationship between individual contributor and manager. Must learn how to motivate employees and include more incentives.

Pros

- Company is growing and is venturing in new areas and so quite a few opportunities exist, but most of them seem to be overseas
- Excellent work-life balance, flexible work hours and management (in general) tends to be very understanding
- You get an opportunity to work with some of best in the industry (sorry for the cliché, but that's the truth) and so a lot to learn

Cons

- In some groups communication between management and employees is not good
- Promotions seem very hard to come by and no path for an employee to grow

Advice to Senior Management

- Employee first policy is good, but at lower levels that isn't necessarily getting implemented.
- Favoritism exists and there is no scope for an employee to grow, especially in the US (overseas it may be good, but here in the US no such thing is happening). Every year we fill out the employee reviews and our 'road-map to growth', but that seems to be getting worked on
- Internal job transfers are happening, but requirements are very stringent and literally no scope for on-the-job training (so vertical transfers are difficult)

Pros

Leader in wireless space and have a choice to work different product lines. Organization encourages individuals to participate in technical forums which is other than assigned tasks.

Cons

No clear visibility on career growth in senior positions. Salary needs to be on par with the competition which is not the case currently.

Advice to Senior Management

India and China are two major markets where there is huge potential for business so focus more on these two countries and increase the business and revenue.

Pros

Exciting work in general. Very good teams to work with. Feeling of working for a successful company. All in all a nice place to be.

Cons

Changes may be slow to happen. Some old practices need to go and got adapt to new methods and processes for a modern work place.

Advice to Senior Management

More cohesiveness needed between geographically spread groups. Need to enforce collaboration between teams more effectively.