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 IT (Information Technology) industry (3.9 stars).

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1.0
Dec 4, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Decent pay and benefits, but net $/hour worked lower than industry due to 60hr+ workweeks.

Cons

Lenovo's PC business has smart, hard working people, but they are hamstrung by incompetent leadership. Nowhere is this more true than in the workstation business. One such leader in a sales conference asked his audience if they would "grow old with him". Clearly he does not understand sales people want to get rich not old. One reportedly has anger management issues, and once threw a whiteboard marker at an employee for which he was demoted. This person continues to use his bully pulpit to threaten, force out or demote people who stand up to him. To make up for his shortcomings Lenovo management rushed in a former top HP guy who was booted off his job there within a year. He seems to be poaching from HP as revenge on his former employer. The chosen few still run the place hogging resources because the leadership is powerless to stop them. Most of Lenovo's growth comes from cheap "workstation branded" desktops sold into the channel. There were reported attempts to fake market share by reporting these desktop computers as workstations. Competitors caught them in the act, complained to IDC and Lenovo's share was knocked down. Dell, HP if you're listening, here's another Chinese company competing on price and about to flame out. There is only one way to go for a business like this... down. Look after your customers!

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2.0
Sep 5, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Nothing really positive to say about Biz. But the people I worked with is the only stand-out.

Cons

no clear communication of direction. Employees constantly feel being kept in the dark

2.0
Sep 1, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The company has a better past than a present or even a future, but we cannot all survive on a glorious past seen through memories. While the company las lost its way, it still has a relatively open culture, doesn't feel like a Chinese dominated company.

Cons

The CEO, Yangqing Yang (internally called YY), is a brilliant mind and has made some really smart moves, but those smart moves and decisions have been far and few since 2016. The company made two disastrous acquisitions - Motorola Mobility from Google and IBM's X-series Server business. The company has struggled to integrate these and to turn them around. A lot of current issues are due to poor decisions and then other decisions to justify these poor decisions. The top management - called Lenovo Executive Committee (LEC for short) is full of old hands people (and mostly old people), providing lip service to YY. No real change is taking place and no real breakthrough strategies. The CEO in waiting, Liu Jun, is an unmitigated disaster, but has support of the large shareholders.

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