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Any one heard about working environment in Alcatel? Hows the job Alcatel involved in Malaysia? Normally ppl will think of Siemen , Ericsson or Huawei when discussing about telco vendor, so how bout Alcatel? Any recruitment?
Alcatel has recently have a severance drive, not mistaken ...last year.
At the moment, I think there is a headcount freeze,and depending on the department.
I was in support, and it's support allowance pays well, for the amount of time you need to spend. I would say, in comparison with Huawei, they pay better.
Works are mostly regional.
Local?...Celcom on the GSM/UMTS network. I do not know their current strategy, but alot of work offshore in Indonesia; Indosat if not mistaken.
If you really have a strong stomach for spending 3/4 of your life with work...Alcatel is for you...just like Huawei.
At the moment, I think there is a headcount freeze,and depending on the department.
I was in support, and it's support allowance pays well, for the amount of time you need to spend. I would say, in comparison with Huawei, they pay better.
Works are mostly regional.
Local?...Celcom on the GSM/UMTS network. I do not know their current strategy, but alot of work offshore in Indonesia; Indosat if not mistaken.
If you really have a strong stomach for spending 3/4 of your life with work...Alcatel is for you...just like Huawei.
Perhaps, you should change to Alcatel-Lucent :-)
QUOTE(finkl1 @ Jun 16 2007, 11:41 PM)
Alcatel has recently have a severance drive, not mistaken ...last year.
At the moment, I think there is a headcount freeze,and depending on the department.
I was in support, and it's support allowance pays well, for the amount of time you need to spend. I would say, in comparison with Huawei, they pay better.
Works are mostly regional.
Local?...Celcom on the GSM/UMTS network. I do not know their current strategy, but alot of work offshore in Indonesia; Indosat if not mistaken.
If you really have a strong stomach for spending 3/4 of your life with work...Alcatel is for you...just like Huawei.
At the moment, I think there is a headcount freeze,and depending on the department.
I was in support, and it's support allowance pays well, for the amount of time you need to spend. I would say, in comparison with Huawei, they pay better.
Works are mostly regional.
Local?...Celcom on the GSM/UMTS network. I do not know their current strategy, but alot of work offshore in Indonesia; Indosat if not mistaken.
If you really have a strong stomach for spending 3/4 of your life with work...Alcatel is for you...just like Huawei.
Ic, thank for your reply. U mean Huawei paid will be better in allowance? How bout the working enviroment? If i m not wrong, Alcatel got more malays compare with other vendors like siemen and ericsson (bcos i got a malay colleague semangat berkobar kobar wan to join alcatel), correct me if i was wrong.
yup...it is Alcatel-Lucent now.
headcount freeze? nah...it's transition time. just merged with lucent mah...so gotta filter out the redundancy first.
there is a trend recently developing in all the vendors in Malaysia. There's a lot more opening in contract basis compared to permanent ones. off course the pay is better for contract basis but then it's contract so it's like a double edge sword. but if lay your cards well then i don't see any problem. just make sure the project duration is a long one.
i'll just be frank with the vendor scenario here. no racism or bad-mouthing intended:
1. Huawei: they do pay well. got lots of benefits. u can keep the laptop given to u after 2 years. environment? it's like an asylum for workaholics there. they'll squeze the life out of u. it's like squezzing the juice form the orange. when all the juice is out, they'll dunk u in a basin and squeeze u again. if you can speak their language it wud be great, cause' they dont give a rat's ass about u when meeting are conducted. they'll just use their mother land language. insider info...
2. ericsson: in danger of becoming non-existent in malaysia a few years back. then suddenly they got the lion share of the 3g projects and boom they come alive again. all round good environment there. a well balanced mixture of locals plus mat salleh. pay? ok lah. benefits good. very flexible in working hours. got good open ended job shifting thingy. u can transfer into different dept easily with the right rapo. but...alas...gotta work really hard to get that though.
3. siemens? tooooooooooooooo slowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
4. the rest? probably like ericsson.....
so here's the conclussion. if u can cope with stress...go for vendors. pay is likely the same. doesn't matter where it is, any place is a good start. if u don't want too much stress, go for telcos...u can just screw all the vendors when something gos wrong....
headcount freeze? nah...it's transition time. just merged with lucent mah...so gotta filter out the redundancy first.
there is a trend recently developing in all the vendors in Malaysia. There's a lot more opening in contract basis compared to permanent ones. off course the pay is better for contract basis but then it's contract so it's like a double edge sword. but if lay your cards well then i don't see any problem. just make sure the project duration is a long one.
i'll just be frank with the vendor scenario here. no racism or bad-mouthing intended:
1. Huawei: they do pay well. got lots of benefits. u can keep the laptop given to u after 2 years. environment? it's like an asylum for workaholics there. they'll squeze the life out of u. it's like squezzing the juice form the orange. when all the juice is out, they'll dunk u in a basin and squeeze u again. if you can speak their language it wud be great, cause' they dont give a rat's ass about u when meeting are conducted. they'll just use their mother land language. insider info...
2. ericsson: in danger of becoming non-existent in malaysia a few years back. then suddenly they got the lion share of the 3g projects and boom they come alive again. all round good environment there. a well balanced mixture of locals plus mat salleh. pay? ok lah. benefits good. very flexible in working hours. got good open ended job shifting thingy. u can transfer into different dept easily with the right rapo. but...alas...gotta work really hard to get that though.
3. siemens? tooooooooooooooo slowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
4. the rest? probably like ericsson.....
so here's the conclussion. if u can cope with stress...go for vendors. pay is likely the same. doesn't matter where it is, any place is a good start. if u don't want too much stress, go for telcos...u can just screw all the vendors when something gos wrong....
Recently I noticed that there's a sudden surge of available posts at Alcatel-Lucent.
Neone know what going on?
In any case, can anyone tell how's the work environment there?
What is the salary for the post of Technical Support Engineer? benefits? salary? They got like 5 different post available for tech support; GSM, WiMAX, Wireless..
The job posted are-
1.Technical Support Engineer, WiMAX (Transmission)
2.Technical Support Engineer, GSM OMC-R
3.Technical Support Engineer, Wireless Transmission
4.Technical Support Engineer, GSM BSS
5.Technical Support Engineer, WiMAX (Access)
can anyone tell what are the scope for each post? which is better in terms of salary and career prospect?
Neone know what going on?
In any case, can anyone tell how's the work environment there?
What is the salary for the post of Technical Support Engineer? benefits? salary? They got like 5 different post available for tech support; GSM, WiMAX, Wireless..
The job posted are-
1.Technical Support Engineer, WiMAX (Transmission)
2.Technical Support Engineer, GSM OMC-R
3.Technical Support Engineer, Wireless Transmission
4.Technical Support Engineer, GSM BSS
5.Technical Support Engineer, WiMAX (Access)
can anyone tell what are the scope for each post? which is better in terms of salary and career prospect?
Added on September 22, 2008, 6:58 pmall the good samaritans out there who are working in alcatel-lucent, need ur help... i have an interview at alcatel-lucent inKL this fri. do u guys mind telling me wat would be the questions asked? or may be the scope...i was told it's for a vacancy in the Microwave team. really appreciate ur help....thank you...
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