I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Alcatel-Lucent (Chennai) in Sep 2012
Interview
Had a written round followed by 3 rounds of face to face interviews. Written round had questions from networking, programming and aptitude. Interview questions were from basic networking stuffs. And had few questions from my college projects.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Alcatel-Lucent (Chennai) in Jul 2016
Interview
Initially they short listed for interview through telephone and then they scheduled on a week day.
Then the following rounds:
3 rounds of Technical rounds ( took around half day)
Then i got a call that , they are OK with my previous rounds and also they scheduled next rounds on another week day.
1 round of Manager round ( around 45 min)
1 round of HR ( around 45 min)
Completed all these rounds..
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Normal interview questions like tell me about yourself, why leaving previous company
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Alcatel-Lucent (Chennai)
Interview
Written (Aptitude + Domain) ,
2 levels of Technical rounds,
1 level of HR.
Telephonic call regarding the confirmation of date of joining and other formalities and list of documents to be submitted on the date of joining
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Questions from Areas of Interest and related to software testing
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Alcatel-Lucent (Bengaluru) in Aug 2015
Interview
I was called for a F2F interview. Initially all basic protocol questions and the interviewer is mainly focusing on negative scenarios and what packet / message level details , e.g. clear bgp what message will be invoked and what code in the messages are passed. The interviewer is obsessed with Switching related questions and negative scenarios and some more questions on Automation
Software Test Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Alcatel-Lucent with 2.9 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 57% positive. To compare, the company-average is 73.9% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Test Engineer roles take an average of 7 days to get hired, when considering 8 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 Software Test Engineer according to 8 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 28%
Phone interview: 22%
Personality test: 17%
Skills test: 11%
Drug test: 6%
Group panel interview: 6%
Background check: 6%
IQ intelligence test: 6%
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