Alcatel-Lucent – “really awful management, especially top management (CEO & his team)”

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.