Lenovo reviews

3.8

76% would recommend to a friend

(3,549 total reviews)
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Yang Yuanqing

86% approve of CEO

66% positive business outlook

Lenovo has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 3,549 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Lenovo employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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2.0
Sep 15, 2015

Finance

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Competitive salary Great protect and attack strategy Fiercely competitive

Cons

Continually rewards bad middle management (CEO and Executives seem to manage the business well but drive and reward bad behavior in middle management). Talked a good game about work /life balance then expected 80 hours a week. Moving HC to China.

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Lenovo Response
10y
Thanks for your time with Lenovo and best wishes. I wouldn't say it is pointless as we are reading your comments and we appreciate it. Regarding work life balance, it is important that you address that with your manager directly as global roles have a tendency to include off hour calls occasionally/weekly. It is important to manage this properly. Also, your headquarters for Finance comment is confusing. Finance Operations and accounting is primarily based there, but there are plenty of finance folks elsewhere in other areas. Regarding middle management....we just ran an employee survey, all managers are responsible to review and share the results. They will see input from their staff and must make appropriate adjustments. Thanks for your comments
1.0
Sep 10, 2015

Marketing Manager

Anonymous employee
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Pros

The pay is good (trying to type enough words to get to the 20 word minimum because I don't have 20 good words to say about this place).

Cons

No support of women, very close-minded and old school mentality. Feels like I went back 10 years in my career. Little flexibility. A Chinese company with Chinese work all the time culture. Only considered to be working if you are chained to your desk, come in early and stay late. No room for growth and they do not do anything to professionally develop their people. No accountability for upper management.

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Lenovo Response
10y
First, thanks for your comment! Secondly, we are sorry you have a low opinion of Lenovo. You must be in a global role. Global roles at Lenovo do have off hour calls. Work life balance is important at Lenovo, but I'd suggest that you bring this up as a priority for you. We never want anyone to feel overwhelmed. If you are uncomfortable with this, I'd suggest reaching out to your HR partner. Another tip, all Lenovo jobs are posted internally and we have seen folks in marketing move up by applying to these internal jobs. You may want to try that too. Lenovo doesn't have a culture of hand holding, so you may need to take the lead on your concerns. Great feedback and thank you.
1.0
Aug 25, 2015

All Hat, No Cattle

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Pros

If you need a job and you can't get in anywhere else then take it and hope for the best.

Cons

Weird company and culture. Chinese culture all the way, centralized Chinese infrastructure, the individual doesn't matter. Constant upheaval and reductions in staff, reorganizations, absolutely no stability. This company can't figure out what to do and it makes changes every quarter or two. Some people have been there a decade as they got absorbed from the IBM acquisition. Lenovo has been greatly affected by their bad billion dollar purchases of Motorola and IBM Server business and are panicking. China economy crashing only makes their outlook worse. They just cut a bunch of staff, with much more to come again soon. Working for this company has been awful and it was a bad career move for me. Don't believe the hype out there

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Lenovo Response
10y
Thank you for your response. It is true that Lenovo made 2 major strategic acquisitions in Motorola and X86. We also had reductions in force in 2015 associated to sizing the organization correctly for the long term. This is not the norm. You joined during this transition period. Lenovo has had a lot of success, particularly in acquiring the PC business from IBM. Our intention is to be just as successful with the current acquisitions. It is sad that you feel this way, but understandable considering how recently you joined. Lenovo is not looking for short term fixes, we are looking for long term strategic success. Transforming a company from PC to PC+ doesn't occur overnight or without challenges. We certainly do have a plan and we intend to succeed and would love to have your support.
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