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Alcatel-Lucent

Acquired by Nokia

Engaged employer

Alcatel-Lucent Reviews

3.4

60% would recommend to a friend

(2,339 total reviews)

Rajeev Suri

84% approve of CEO

29% positive business outlook

Alcatel-Lucent has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 2,339 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Alcatel-Lucent employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Telecommunications industry (3.6 stars).

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2K reviews
1.0
17 Nov 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Easy going laid back culture. Good extras in the benefits package but it is on top of a low salary.

Cons

Lower than market rate salary. No pay rises. No bonuses. No career progression. No training (unless you are extremely lucky). No flexibility to move around and undertake different roles. As much work as possible is being off shored to low cost countries Romania and India. If you are in these countries then you may have opportunities for career progression, but not if you are in the UK. Every team is being cut back in sheer acts of desperation to save every penny they can, the result is intolerably high workloads on the people that remain.

4.0
12 Mar 2017

Engineer

Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The company develops the latest technology, it is really good teamwork mos of the times, and feels like working with skilled people in particular engineers.

Cons

Locations are not the best, hard to reach by public transport, besides there are many spread offices.

3.0
29 Oct 2015

Used to be a great company

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great people, at the peak of 2g era the atmosphere was incredible. Large company with lots of opportunity, when available there used to be good pay and good bonuses.

Cons

Chaotic merger between alcatel and lucent resulted in adopting the worst of both rather than the best. Consistent lack of investment in staff both in terms of pay and in training took a long toll. Poor decisions in process management meant every improvement attempt faltered and failed. Too much reliance in low cost regions caused issues for global development

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