Alcatel-Lucent Motive Software Engineer interview experience

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ChennaiPosted Oct 2011 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interview leaned heavily into networking fundamentals, and that theme showed up in both the kinds of questions and the level of detail.

I remember getting asked about Layer 2 and Layer 3 technologies, with a lot of focus on protocols and how they behave in real scenarios. VLAN and STP came up, along with ARP, RIP, and OSPF. I was also asked about where IS-IS and BGP fit, and the interviewer expected me to connect protocol knowledge back to prior experience.

In another technical discussion that I went through, the same style of questioning continued—differences between routers, switches, and hubs, and how tools like tracert work. I had to explain switching and routing concepts and why and where specific routing protocols like

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