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    Lenovo Reviews

    Updated 20 June 2018
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    • "sometimes hard to achieve work/life balance" (in 90 reviews)

    • "No work/life balance plan on taking your laptop home for a 6-7 day work week" (in 20 reviews)

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    1. "Great working environment, with high level, progressive management"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee

      Pros

      Progression, earnings, job security, positive managers, great colleagues and and overall team spirit.

      Cons

      None that I have encountered so far. I don't have anythig else to add to this.

      Advice to Management

      Continue with the great work, caring about your staff.

    2. Helpful (1)

      "Good Company with some big egos"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee in London, England
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee in London, England
      Recommends
      Neutral Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I worked at Lenovo full-time (More than 3 years)

      Pros

      Great salary and benefits, a great growth story with a good heritage. Some very talented people there.

      Cons

      In recent years there have been many leadership changes and some big and overrated egos have joined, This has impacted the culture.

      Advice to Management

      Don't forget the company routes

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    3. "EMEA roll"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee in Hook, England
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee in Hook, England
      Recommends
      Neutral Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I worked at Lenovo full-time (More than 10 years)

      Pros

      Flexible subsidised cafe, People are mostly nice, can take a while for solutions to arrive, but when they do they tend to fix the issue fairly, traffic can make getting out of the car park hard, but that tends to be rare these days. Most of IBM legacy has gone, but that is a good thing.

      Cons

      You are IT hardware be prepared for tight margins, some channel conflict.

    4. "Global Account Manager"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee

      I have been working at Lenovo full-time

      Pros

      Flexible working environment
      Good access to key stake holders internally

      Cons

      Pressure of results by senior management
      Lack of resource to support you

    5. "Anonymous"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at Lenovo full-time

      Pros

      Great culture, very empowered workplace and responsive and flexible leadership.

      Cons

      Always on work which create its own pressure if you cannot manage that but still a very supportive work environment.

    6. "Really great, can do culture. Easy to work with people and great passion"

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      Current Employee - Platform Technologist in London, England
      Current Employee - Platform Technologist in London, England
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at Lenovo full-time (More than 3 years)

      Pros

      People, culture, passion for growth, technology leaders. Great portfolio of products to sell and be apart of. Management style and team leadership. Very customer focused mentality.

      Cons

      Highly competitive workforce can have it's downsides. Access to some HR resources can be cumbersome but overall very positive.

    7. "Corporate Culture"

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      Former Employee - Project Manager in Glasgow, Scotland
      Former Employee - Project Manager in Glasgow, Scotland
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I worked at Lenovo full-time (Less than a year)

      Pros

      Warm and welcoming corporate culture

      Cons

      Needs more organisation and accessibility to HR system

      Lenovo Response

      7 Jul 2017 – Global Talent Acquisition Specialist

      Thank you for sharing with us today and for your time with the company! As you know we are proud of our corporate culture and work diligently to constantly improve our culture for the betterment of... More

    8. "Public Sector Sales"

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      Former Employee - Senior Sales Representative in Hook, London, England
      Former Employee - Senior Sales Representative in Hook, London, England
      Recommends
      Neutral Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      Pros

      Growing Company - fantastic products - Flexible working

      Cons

      Antiquated systems no people skills numbers driven . Slow career progression

      Advice to Management

      Listen to your peers, look after your people they will look after your customers

    9. Helpful (1)

      "Good company, however messy"

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      Current Employee - Operations Analyst in Hook, England
      Current Employee - Operations Analyst in Hook, England

      Pros

      Environment
      Flexibility
      Benefits
      Work life balance
      Location of main office

      Cons

      Large discrepancies of salaries across BUs
      Enterprise side of Lenovo is treated like the "distant cousin"
      No carreer management by managers

      Advice to Management

      Managers should be more interested in their employees' career aspirations, to avoid loosing so many talents

    10. "Public Sector Sales Director"

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      Former Employee - Director in Hook, London, England
      Former Employee - Director in Hook, London, England
      Recommends
      Negative Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I worked at Lenovo full-time (More than 3 years)

      Pros

      high pace, fast furious and fun. Deals range from $300K to $30M, customers range from 1000 seats to >100k seats giving excellent experience of all sales types with working relationships across all job functions including the board room.

      Cons

      difficult to shape change due to internal culture.

      Advice to Management

      Listen to the market and prepare and adapt for the future forecast. do not simply blunder on regardless in the hope it will turn out OK.

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