Job Title: Alliance Manager
Location: Columbus, OH
Submitted on: 17-Feb-04
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Working at Lucent Technologies has changed since the telecom bubble
burst. In the past, there was much more conspicuous spending on
amenities such as company sponsored events and gifts. However, the
absence of those things has not impacted the morale of the company as
much as the new competitive environment has. Concerning corporate
culture, Lucent is an "engineering house," meaning it is dominated by
engineering thinking and culture. Engineers fill most positions of
leadership, and engineering thinking is Lucent thinking. Some of that
is changing as the company must begin thinking more like business
peopl, or marketing people, or with more team-oriented thinking, but it
is a dominating factor to be considered. Engineers comfortable with
life at a university will not be uncomfortable at Lucent. In my
facility, Lucent appears much like a campus, and life flows much more
like an academic institution than a business. This includes dress.
While the official line is "business casual", it is not uncommon for
some employees to wear shorts and sandals in some locations. Those in
customer facing positions tend to wear standard tieless corporate
wear. There is a significant international population at Lucent, and
traditional wear for Indian women for example, is also not uncommon.
As far as diversity is concerned, I find it wanting in the area of
standard American diversity goals. Nonetheless, Lucent has significant
numbers of employees from around the world. I routinely work with
people from China, Europe, the Middle East, India, and various parts of
South America. If you are uncomfortable working very closely with
Chinese persons, or Muslims, female supervisors, or homosexuals, you
will be uncomfortable at Lucent. Lucent is weak in opportunities for
advancement, due to the fact that we are "top heavy". Lucent rarely
fires managers, with the result that there are few positions for people
to be promoted into. The telecommunications industry is not growing
the way it was a few years ago, so there are no new groups, new
technologies, or new markets to be promoted into either.
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