Alcatel-Lucent Motive Software Engineer interview experience

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United StatesPosted Sep 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After a recruiter touchpoint, I ended up in a technical screen that felt very organized and focused on practical software engineering and systems thinking.

The discussion leaned heavily into protocol development and Linux-adjacent topics, with a mix of Python questions and C/C++ coding guideline expectations. It also turned into both high-level and low-level design conversation, so I had to connect implementation details back to overall architecture rather than just talk about features.

What stood out was how much they wanted clarity around basics in networking and integration-style problem solving. Even when the questions felt like “engineering fundamentals,” they kept pulling me back to how I’d troubleshoot and resolve issues end to end,

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