Working at Alcatel-Lucent in Naperville, IL: 39 Employee Job Reviews by Real Employee working in Naperville, IL Area

What do you like about working at Alcatel-Lucent?

"The people and the atmosphere. The salary and the amount of training time they gave you to always continue to improve yourself on each new assignment. Great place to work."

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

"Anything that I didn't like, I was able to work around it and make the best of it and worked harder to try to improve it."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Make sure you get to know the skills, knowledge and capabilities of each individual that works for you. Allow them the opportunity to utilize their gifts."

What do you like about working at Alcatel-Lucent?

"The products 5ESS."

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

"It's not the company it used to be."

"I worked for AT&T Bell Labs for 18-years. I left to explore opportunities overseas."

What do you like about working at Alcatel-Lucent?

"They have a good telecommute continued education program."

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

"If student you need excellent marks so study hard. If professional then you may want to consider a mentor. Politics run high in this company."

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

"I was moved to assignments not to my liking."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Value your employees' ideas and remarks."

"Great company."

"Better than no job at all... barely."

"A good company is going through rough times."

What do you like about working at Alcatel-Lucent?

"Everything, it was a great place to work."

What do you like about working at Alcatel-Lucent?

"Good challenging work environment."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"To encourage talented people."

"Nice company to work."

"I don't know of any large companies like this anymore."

What do you like about working at Alcatel-Lucent?

"Just Lucent Technologies. No complaints! A great environment."

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

"Miraculous to get an interview."

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

"Kind of slow to make business, program, and process adjustments."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Become more agile; moot point at this time..."

What do you like about working at Alcatel-Lucent?

"Education and Training programs in place are very good. Early Career Advisory Program - Mentoring programs in place are very good."

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

"Performance Management feedbacks were not good, often times perception painted in a wrong way; improvement identifications pointed to areas that you/employee is already good at. Hence, dependence on professional development went in wrong directions."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"True respect for Minority and Diversity! Give the talented minority employees a chance to move up. Often times, I have seen non-qualified minorities get promoted and you demorale the rest of the minority employee groups."

"Great place to learn."

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

"Make sure it's where you want to be and that they want you to be there."

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

"Nothing."

"I enjoyed job tour at Lucent. I opted to retire early at 47, to pursue consulting."

What do you like about working at Alcatel-Lucent?

"The people and technology challenges."

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

"Lucent has been purchased by Alcatel to form Alcatel-Lucent, which may impact the direction that company is headed. Be aware that the current product suite may change due to decisions made abroad."

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

"The strategic direction of the company did not keep up with the industry trends."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Keep your ear to the ground and listen for game changing technology solutions. Figure out how to build them and get them to market quickly."

"High technology, but in a declining CDMA business."

What do you like about working at Alcatel-Lucent?

"Knowledgeable people and a best-in-class project management process."

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

"Not at this time, they are not hiring."

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

"The declining state of the CDMA wireless business."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Focus the mission and vision going forward with the 4G LTE technology."

"Lucent is a top notch company"

What do you like about working at Alcatel-Lucent?

"The heritage and the culture of the company (ATT Bell Labs) is unmatchable. Excellent R&D and still top of the line Telecom companies worldwide."

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

"The innovation and the culture. Also the experience of working on state of art telecom systems."