Lenovo reviews

3.8

76% would recommend to a friend

(3,550 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 3,550 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 Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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4K reviews
1.0
Dec 4, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

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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Lenovo Response
6y
Thank you for your review and feedback. We appreciate the feedback on your experiences and your input - we consider all feedback and will assess how to best address your concerns.
2.0
Sep 5, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

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

1.0
Jun 29, 2019

Too big to fail unfortunately.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Cons outweigh the pros so no need to share anything.

Cons

Passive aggressive culture at Exec Director and above. The trick to moving up there is to outlast all the good people that quit. I am not saying the people on top are not smart. They are and are quite savvy bureaucrats that know how to protect their fiefdoms. Make no mistake moving up is about be selfish but being perceived as a collaborator.

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Lenovo Response
7y
Thank you for taking the time to write this review! We value your insight.
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