Alcatel-Lucent Motive Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

Austin, TXPosted Sep 2014 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process started through a staffing agency referral, and it turned into a long, oddly skewed interview.

I had one phone screen and then one on-site interview, and on-site was intense: seven people interviewed me one after another, all back-to-back. They told me they wanted a senior Java profile with a strong networking background.

Instead of diving into technical depth, the interview stretched into a lot of riddle-style and IQ/intelligence questions. I didn’t get much actual technical questioning, and I ended up feeling disinterested and confused about what they were evaluating. It ran for about five to six hours straight, which made it feel extremely picky and exhausting rather than

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