If you accept a position in the sales organization at Lenovo US, you will soon realize that this company is not about innovation, engagement, growth or giving back. They are a group of middle age white guys in North Carolina who are honestly not even human on the inside. China makes the stuff, and these honkies peddle it with flip flop morals, not caring if there are known manufacturing defects, they want to sell it and get rid of it, and will deal with the known defective machines when the time comes. In the 2 Years that I have worked for Lenovo, I never experienced an earnest 1 on 1 conversation with my former manager in the K-12 hybrid business. I never received a single hello what is good in life, how are you and your family, what motivates you and makes you happy, what are you into, what do you want to learn and grow into here.. type of questions. Every single day and week starts off with multiple unhappy low quality bottom feeding catfish like partners who Lenovo desperately relies on to make ends meet. These reseller partners employ highly rude, aggressive, low quality, and extremely unpleasant Account Managers who sell into your assigned accounts. These partners include scum like "CDW" etc who bark at you like a dog, day in and day out, and as soon as you provide the services they request, they are trained to immediately throw the pricing, quotes, solutions, and information back in your face as if you wronged them, and they ask for price cuts, twisting the knife, and your fate.. throwing tantrums over email, and ultimately screwing with your paycheck and livelihood when they eventually cry to your superiors that they don't take home the full pot and leave you pennies to fight for. Once the morning email complaints are sludged through, you will then usually get a bombardment of invites and spam calls from other not so related colleagues who are onboarded with the role to harass the inside and field sales teams for how you can help them peddle more filler services. A few hours rolls by and your boss emails your team a breakdown of everyone's performance for the month and it is usually just a reminder to keep generating more for him, more more more. Internal financial reporting tools are archaic and understanding where you are at each week or month is nearly impossible, as partners refuse to report sales, so come end of month you are scrambling to account for credit on deals that Lenovo was paid on already but you have yet to receive credit for to keep the lights on at home.
Each months victories of high dollar deals that have closed are paraded in weekly calls to brag about big numbers, but that very same director will not say thank you to you personally or acknowledge you. As soon as the 1st of the month hits, you are back to being a worthless zero, and the mentality once again switches to "Load the pipeline and tell us exactly what you are making for us this month" There is zero training or mentorship, and you can only smile like an idiot and accept their crappy water bottle and notepad gifts for so long. If you ever need assistance with physically impaired health related difficulty such as bad vision or hearing and request a larger monitor screen, or sound device.. your manager will laugh at you as if it is an outrageous request. Overall, unless you want to ruin your spine, nervous system, and physiology for the worse, look elsewhere.
