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 corporate culture and the trust for a person to complete a quality project before time."

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

"The company has now merged with Alcatel. It still provides challenging projects."

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

"Too many cross referenced teams may be counter productive to project success."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Feasibility reports must be realistic, especially with inputs from people who are going to execute the project."

What do you like about working at Alcatel-Lucent?

"The people were the best when the copany with associated with AT&T"

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

"Act professional during the interview process like you know what you are doing"

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

"the Downsizing and the recent disregard for pepple and their free time"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Treat people with respoect like you used to prior to Alcatell when you were AT&T"

"Overall, it was a great experience until the time I was layed off."

What do you like about working at Alcatel-Lucent?

"I enjoyed the type of work I was doing as well as the people I worked with."

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

"Not really anything different from interviewing any other company, just answer questions as honestly and the best you can."

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

"There was not really anything that I disliked besides having to be let go."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"None really, I believe management did a good enough job under the circumstances."

What do you like about working at Alcatel-Lucent?

"The atmosphere of the company and its personnel is amiable and proficient."

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

"Identify the expertise required for a particular position to meet your experience."

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

"Was not challenging enough. The company stock was worthless."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Do not provide company stock as incentive if it is worthless."

"These 3 years in ALU is some sort of a come back as I worked for Lucent Technologies in the past also for 3-4 years but as an integration expert for VoIP Projects. This time my role has a huge difference and great responsibilities. The Solutions Architect role is very challenging, a great fit! And besides loving what I do I find that I'm very good at it."

"I have had a great career and am grateful to my company. It is struggling."

What do you like about working at Alcatel-Lucent?

"Great benefits and I am well respected at this company."

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

"The company is struggling and burning through $600m in cash a year."

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

"The company has lost $10B over the past 6 years and has layed off 60,000 workers."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Focus on core competencies, need to eliminate layers of management."

"Tough place to love, but the outcome was inevitable post tech bubble. The merger never quite jelled, and as a result the company continued to contract and, as of now, is on the brink of liquidation."