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

"Great company."

"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."

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."

What do you like about working at Alcatel-Lucent?

"Good challenging work environment."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"To encourage talented people."

"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."

"A good company is going through rough times."

"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?

"Work environment."

What do you like about working at Alcatel-Lucent?

"Great technology."

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

"Layoffs, no job security."

"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."

"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."

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

"It's a different company than what I worked for."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"The management team in place now is different than when I was at the company and a different business."

"Nice company to work."

What do you like about working at Alcatel-Lucent?

"Flexible, friendly work environment. Very family oriented. Flexible hours."

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

"Ask about job security."

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

"Job security - lately."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Keep the jobs in the US."