Alcatel-Lucent Reviews

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

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,

Pros

young and dynamic working environment, considering Turkey

Cons

lack of high expertise on the challenges, considering Turkey

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

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

Good data product set. New technologies are coming to the market every day. The edge router family is the best in the industry.

Cons

Upper management doesn't respect the average employee. Products that are establish can take 10 weeks to ship. Some products aren't priced to compete in the market.

Advice to Senior Management

fix product time intervals