Alcatel-Lucent Reviews in France

Pros

Big company with important support

Cons

Too much processes, loss of efficiency

Advice to Senior Management

None

Pros

The name of the company and the salary i received

Cons

Not much work to do , moreover it is not good to work in big company as intern.

Advice to Senior Management

It is very good to work with them

Pros

Not many, and getting worse. The bad global situation is the only reason most people are sticking it out.

Cons

No leadership, all politics, very poor misguided decisions being made by incompetent senior managers. Executing on all the wrong fronts, a lot of re-arranging of deck chairs. Management at headquarters in France is in a state of paralysis. The CEO are B-C players at business but world class at politics and self promotion. Really an awful mess and getting worse.

Advice to Senior Management

Focus on business and forget your little empires. Fire 2/3 of non-product & non-revenue related people. How many useless layers of admin are we feeding? Stop making it up as you go along, clients and employees do not believe a word you say.

Pros

Opportunities for experience in regional and global roles. There are some good people to work with, with whom you can learn.

Cons

Once in, people remain there for ever to form clubs and play politics - low refresh of people and ideas. Poor execution of Alcatel & Lucent merger leading to poor market performance against competitors

Advice to Senior Management

Get rid of the dead wood, encourage more refresh of people. Reduce hierarchy and "clubs" and look after the good staff. Reduce complexity.

Pros

Technology company with a lot of breadth
There could be opportunities, logically

Cons

Hard to work in a company that is under heavy pressure, and whose propects never seem to improve
Competing against China is a losing game

Advice to Senior Management

Fix what is broken in the company, improve the recognition and communication, put an end to the management privileges and their lack of competence and accountability

Pros

There are some talented employees who could make a positive difference, but only if the untalented, of whome there are more, get moved out.

Cons

Very bad senior managment who are all old boys club from ecole polytechnique and who lack even basic business skills. They are technocrats.

Advice to Senior Management

Central planning sunk the USSR, and it will sink ALU. You have no idea what is going on in your company because your focus is on measuring irrelevant data. You continue to allow mediocre unsuccessful people to remain, and penalise prodcutive people as a result as they are forced to deal with these. Your focus should be on letting your successful employees run the business.

Pros

Great balance between work and personal life.

Cons

There isn't much emphasis and opportunities on career development of the employees.

Advice to Senior Management

There must be programmes to develop the professional aspects of the employees.

Pros

incumbent supplier to major telcos, strong market position and high technical skills available within the company
multicultural environment with some career opportunities abroad ; a very polite and amiable work environment where criticism is not the norm

Cons

disorganized company with lack of focus on customer needs and satisfaction
poor management and execution skills ; demotivated staff ; complexity of internal processes ; absolute lack of comprehensive hr management strategy ;

Advice to Senior Management

Respect for the past and hope for the future.

Pros

the technology/product are good as any in market place. Good enginners willing to help and share knowledge.

Cons

Direction not decided, and reorganisation for the sake of. My boss is OK, but his boss do not inspire, and need people lessons.

Advice to Senior Management

Stop changing "direction" all the time.