The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Alcatel-Lucent (Plano, TX) in Sep 2009
Interview
There is absolutely no structure to interviews. Typically you get interview call if you have internal referral. From there on its purely general questions on what you worked on in your past projects. Questions are purely based on what is written on your resume. You will be interviewed by hiring manager and some team members. HR interviews are vague too. Tailor your resume to the position and unless you are 110% fit for the job there will be more internal referrals that will beat you out.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Layout the complete call flow for a UE registered in a UMTS network trying to access internet ?
I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Alcatel-Lucent (Bengaluru) in May 2017
Interview
Asked to come for a f2f interview. You will have to stand outside in the reception because there will be many candidates and 4 chairs.
The interviewer was looking for a separate set of skills and I felt there was no reason for asking candidates to come just for fun.
The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Alcatel-Lucent (Bengaluru)
Interview
I got a call letter through a consultancy. I got call from consultancy on Monday and got the interview call letter on Friday.Interview process took a day (except HR discussion). It was nerve-wracking and lot of waiting in between interview rounds. There was overall 3 rounds (2 technical and one managerial) and a task given to design a static web page within an hour.
I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Alcatel-Lucent (Bengaluru) in Nov 2015
Interview
I applies through an HR consulting firm who contacted me via my profile on an online job search portal. They schedules on-site interview within 2 weeks of first interaction. I had two technical rounds. Each comprised of questions on my current work background, reason for job change, programming problems on C, Linux kernel, device drivers and NAND flash. They then scheduled another discussion with HR to discuss the compensation. The entire process took about 4-5 weeks.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Questions on my current work background, reason for job change, programming problems on C, Linux kernel, device drivers and NAND flash.
Senior Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Alcatel-Lucent with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 67% positive. To compare, the company-average is 73.9% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Senior Software Engineer roles take an average of 18 days to get hired, when considering 14 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Alcatel-Lucent overall takes an average of 17 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Alcatel-Lucent as a Senior Software Engineer according to 14 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 22%
Skills test: 17%
Background check: 15%
Phone interview: 15%
Presentation: 9%
Group panel interview: 9%
Personality test: 7%
IQ intelligence test: 7%
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