Working at Alcatel-Lucent in Calabasas, CA: 18 Employee Job Reviews by Real Employee working in Calabasas, CA Area

"I have worked last 8 months and Alcatel Lucent is very good place and the company has best management."

"I have been working this place, Alcatel Lucent Tech. for last year, September. It is very good place and very good co-workers and management. I really like the company if they offer me the fulltime I will take it exactly."

"Technical experience has been nothing short of excellent."

What do you like about working at Alcatel-Lucent?

"I like working with my current boss. There is a lot of freedom in the team."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"The interview depends on which department. But the logical skills are very important."

What don't you like about working at Alcatel-Lucent?

"The compensation structure does not match what I am looking for."

What do you like about working at Alcatel-Lucent?

"Challenging projects, the culture, benefits, future growth, strong management, location."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Ask about the culture and equal opportunity and the future of the company."

What don't you like about working at Alcatel-Lucent?

"Too much politics, weak management, no growth, immoral company, discrimination."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Have some fun, trust your employees but verify, challenge your employees."

"Good company, weak vision and leadership."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"They should pay and value their engineers and not be such a selfish executive group."

What do you like about working at Alcatel-Lucent?

"My direct reports."

What don't you like about working at Alcatel-Lucent?

"My immediate supervisor."

"Excellent place to work. A career for a lifetime!"

What do you like about working at Alcatel-Lucent?

"Success of the business."

What don't you like about working at Alcatel-Lucent?

"Many RIF's at the time I left the company."

What do you like about working at Alcatel-Lucent?

"The new cutting edge technology was great. The diversity and ability to pass off testing projects to other sites around the world for 24 hour a day testing of critical functions was impressive!"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be prepared for long hours, but some very interesting work!"

What don't you like about working at Alcatel-Lucent?

"My commute to work was atrocious! Their salary was not commensurate with living in the area, so I had a 75 mile commute one way."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Offer a buy-in program to assist with getting people housing closer to the site."

"It was a fun place to work."

"Alcatel has excellent benefits and compensation packages. I left Alcatel due to numerous layoffs occurring at the time, including my department where most marketing positions had already moved to Plano, TX."

What do you like about working at Alcatel-Lucent?

"Stayed with the company for 10 years and had the opportunity to work within several different positions and departments during that time."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Skills, skills, skills. This is a very technology savvy company and they only hire top performers!"

What don't you like about working at Alcatel-Lucent?

"The company had 130,000 employees before RIF's began. By the time I left, they had 65,000 employees worldwide. My department had over 100 employees in marketing/sales operations, when I left the company they had only 5 employees. My concern was that eventually my position would be eliminated. I acquired the position at Ixia and at a higher salary."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I believe it's important for employees and their managers to work closely and communicate consistently. One of my managers had too many people reporting to her to maintain that kind of relationship. My advice would be to limit the number of people reporting to a single manager to 30 at the most."

"Alcatel is a big company with all of its good and bad sides."

What do you like about working at Alcatel-Lucent?

"People."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"You have to be an excellent engineer to apply."

What don't you like about working at Alcatel-Lucent?

"It is a big company."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Keep up the good work."

"A bit bloated and overly structured, but a good work place."

What do you like about working at Alcatel-Lucent?

"Enjoyable, mostly agreeable people."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Know your networking protocols, some C++ design, some realtime development issues."

What don't you like about working at Alcatel-Lucent?

"Bloated structure."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Allow more inter-department transfers."

What do you like about working at Alcatel-Lucent?

"Great learning experience. Good people to work with."

What don't you like about working at Alcatel-Lucent?

"Not many growth opps."

"Job is ok but not much advancement."

What do you like about working at Alcatel-Lucent?

"The people."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Interview with your eyes open."

What don't you like about working at Alcatel-Lucent?

"Upper management keeping things about the job from the employees."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Be more open with their staff."