Lenovo reviews

3.9

76% would recommend to a friend

(3,539 total reviews)
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Yang Yuanqing

87% approve of CEO

67% positive business outlook

Lenovo has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 3,539 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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3.0
Jan 31, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

. A sensible sick-time policy (if you're sick, STAY HOME and get well!!!) . Unlimited vacation time . Good benefits package . Decent work-life balance . Depending upon your boss, working from home is an option. . Free coffee and soda

Cons

. Excessive layoffs . No upward mobility -- management is always hired from outside the company . Lots of late-night and early morning meetings because the workforce is so heavily scattered. . When someone leaves through attrition, unless the position is "manager" or above, the company has a policy of not replacing the person. There aren't enough people to properly work on the existing load of projects. . Too much offshoring positions to outside the US to save money. Many of the positions that are being offshored, such as Program Management, Training (in US English), and Information Development (tech writing--in US English), are positions that really ought to be done by people located in the US. Having a PM in Taiwan when the group is in the US and Romania doesn't work, especially when the Taiwanese PM refuses to match hours with everyone else on the team. . Below-average pay.

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Lenovo Response
8y
Thank you for your review and current service with the company. We value your opinion and appreciate your candid feedback. At Lenovo, we are proud of the global footprint we’ve developed. Our employees span the globe and we value the technical skills and work they contribute both individually and collectively. Again, thank you for your feedback
1.0
Oct 17, 2017

Con artists

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great benefits, and some good ideas, but they steal them from you. DO NOT INNOVATE FOR LENOVO. THEY WILL CHEAT YOU!!!

Cons

I am being laid off October 31, this year. I created, so far, 48 patents for Lenovo. They are now telling me when I am laid off I will not be paid for any patents that I have not signed over rights to. This totals around 30,000 dollars. So, they hired me a year and a half ago, exploited my intellectual property, and then laid me off, still owing me around 30,000 dollars for the patents. Not good business for a 'technology' firm. Do not expect to stick around if you get a job here.

2.0
Aug 15, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Only reason to work at Lenovo, at least the team I'm currently in, is to pay the bills, have medical insurance, and 401K (while it lasts...)

Cons

EXTREME LACK OF PRODUCTIVITY They could have stayed away from the old fashioned, inefficient IBM bloated processes, but they kept using the same processes over and over. All of the problems that this team had at IBM are still here, and even worse. There is no overall vision, no training for employees, managers only know how to move people from team A to team B, then add pressure while making everyone's life miserable. Add to this total madness where development of code happens out of people across all timezones and various parts of the world, and you have a recipe for disaster. Developers at the same time no longer care anymore, they write subpar code lacking quality, tightly coupled, unit testing anyone? Of course not! This is a big mess, a sinking ship, and eventually all US employees will be laid off. Rightfully so, since this is unsustainable. The only reason I'm still here is because I have to pay the bills, and because I haven't found a job yet elsewhere.

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Lenovo Response
10y
Interesting comments....not particularly inspiring to us considering you say the only reason to be here is to pay bills. That is not the sort of outlook that leads to success here. We do wish you the best moving forward as it doesn't look like you enjoy your work here. But, while you are with us before you leave, and we are paying you, you have an obligation to give us your very best. You can inspire those around you. You can communicate your concerns and lead to streamlined processes to fix things. You are part of the Lenovo family. We need you to help. If you have answers, we want you to act on them and make us better.
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