Alcatel-Lucent Reviews

Pros

Ability to try different roles, learn different skills, work with excellent people,

Cons

Company is still trying to get it's feet back on solid ground.

Pros

flexibility, autonomy and the ability to carve your own path provided that you have the support of your manager and his senior staff.

Cons

The fact that it can be difficult to move from one business unit to another one in a different division even if your skill set is a match

Advice to Senior Management

create a program where informal and formal mentorships can occur. this will help alleviate the issue of top talent leaving the company.

Pros

work from home or the office very flexible in how you manage your own time in most positions. Though you do need to get the job done and you will have plenty of responsibilities. Company has interesting history and is trying to rebuild itself with some excellent new products.

Cons

The core management is based in France so much of the promotions go to people in Europe. The French tend to want to double check and re-check stuff which slows down the speed with which things get accomplished. Also, there is way too many organizations here and sometimes you are not sure what org is responsible for what. Also this creates overlap of functions and again a slow down of getting things done.

Advice to Senior Management

Simplify the management structure. You could easily eliminate most VP's, senior directors, etc controlling their feifdoms and consolidate organizations down to some simple basics such as markeing, sales, R&D, IT, HR, etc. instead there are organizations layered over organization inside these main orgs that in many cases have so many overlapping functions. Everybody works so hard just trying to work through the various orgs that have their hands on any project. This adds time to complete the project, frustration to the employees (who are very motivated and sharp) and time to market and profits. In short, take a big hammer and flatten the organizations. Dont get rid of any worker bees just all the management layers. Also, end the IT outsourcing to HP. Not because they are a bad company but because they are another incredibly complex matrixed organization which then doubles the time of getting any project done.

Pros

Flexible work arrangements and opportunity to gain a global perspective and experience and help drive trends in a variety of highly visible markets and technologies.

Cons

Little room for advancement, over-dependence on a very small number of customers, especially in North America. Losing its competitive advantage and falling behind on innovation.

Advice to Senior Management

Leverage the insights and developments from Bell Labs more effectively by bringing them to market in a more timely manner. Simplify the complex global matrix structure.

Pros

Experience in telecommunication
Rewards high performers very well

Cons

Needs to be a bit more organized
After acquiring many companies it seems a disjointed workplace

Advice to Senior Management

Company organization is important

Pros

Bell Labs development carries the company

Cons

integrity of leadership since merger is limited

Pros

The people are the best you will find anywhere.

Cons

Working night shift 50% of the time.

Pros

- very friendly people
- high level of culture in the company
- ability to work with people from different parts of the work
- working using various technologies, languages e.t.c. You can learn something new all the time

Cons

Due to cost cuts there are no motivational programs in the company
Financial position is not so good as it was about 10 years ago - salaries are frozen for last few years

Advice to Senior Management

You should better motivate the people: Mostly I'm talking about the money

Pros

best in work culture to work

Cons

no good work to work long time. but it is good to work for some time

Advice to Senior Management

ok

Pros

1. great place to balance between work and life.
2. great place to learn new technologies.
3. great place for research,

Cons

1. low salary
2. very very difficult to promote
3. its a French company / not a US company
4. low bonus