If you know the right people, work on a good team, and have a good manager, this is a great place to work - Software Engineer Lenovo Employee Review

4.0
Mar 16, 2020
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Pros

The benefits (medical, dental, , vision, and 401k) are good and Lenovo has a good number of paid holidays. Your insurance premiums are much lower than some of the contractors who have to go through their contracting company. There's a gym, nurse, and cafeteria on the campus (contractors are not allowed to use the gym nor the nurse). The company usually offers free flu shots for the employees. On many teams, employees are assigned a Lenovo ThinkPad to use. The profit sharing bonuses are nice. Some of the contests, benefits, spiffs, and gifts in the sales teams are great (one year lease on cars and Rolex watches were given out in the past). They have an employee purchase discount on both the Lenovo PCs and Moto phones. They have many community events such as assisting Habitat for Humanity, etc... Ten years ago, they used to have free lunches to celebrate Thanksgiving and Christmas. Technically you have unlimited vacation (with manager approval). *****If you know the right people, work on a good team, and have a good manager, this is a great place to work.*****

Cons

Some of the cons have been inherited from IBM - these include some inefficient structure and some software in some areas (Lenovo is making some attempts to change this). As mentioned before, there's a lot of corporate politics in some groups and I feel that some of this came over from IBM (at least my retired IBM friends confirm this). Some of the managers seem to fall into the category of "they were great at what they did in their previous position, but they are not great at managing people". Not always an issue, but some teams have to work closely with their counterparts in China and this could mean working later or earlier, due to the time differences. There seems to be a high turnover in some teams and there is seems to be a corporate wide layoff every two years. Contractors don't always have access to all of the perks the employees do.

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5.0
Jun 22, 2026
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Pros

Absolutely love my team, people, culture, and work events. Genuinely I can't think of any cons. 3 days in-person, 2 days remote. Best work life balance ever, and great pay. Even intern benefits are amazing

Cons

None that I can think of

1.0
Jul 7, 2026
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Interesting work, good benefits, talented colleagues

Cons

Terrible manager behavior, terrible work-life balance, with no recourse or support for employees. I joined and quickly found that the ED I reported to had no experience in the area he oversaw, would not listen to anyone who had experience, was mean to his team members, and set wildly unrealistic expectations without any clear direction or consistency. Bullying, meanness and pointless criticism were the norm, while leadership was completely lacking. And if you work on the Digital Transformation team, expect to spend from 8PM-11PM at night and early morning on calls, with little regard for sleep or work-life balance. The worst part was finding out that the HR team was already well aware of all these problems with my ED (the two other managers under him quit), and the leadership team had no intention of making any changes. So disappointing.

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