Alcatel-Lucent Motive Software Engineer interview experience

Got offer

Easy

Negative

Naperville, ILPosted Jan 2014 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My path to interviewing started with a recruiter, and then I had several follow-up calls that included the director for the project I’d be working on.

The overall difficulty felt very easy compared to other processes I’d seen.

The calls were more about aligning on the work than throwing me into heavy problem-solving. I didn’t feel like I had to “survive” a gauntlet of coding or deep technical puzzles; instead, the conversation moved through the company side and the specifics of the director’s perspective on the role.

I received an offer, and it came fairly smoothly through that early recruiter-to-director sequence. Looking back, the biggest surprise was how light the technical stress felt—most of the momentum came from getting to the

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