No perspective - Embedded Software Engineer Lenovo Employee Review

2.0
15 Jun 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Good local managers and even better technical team leaders ( in Romania ). Some very good networking engineers ( their potential and expertise is unfortunately not used accordingly ) - nice office space - state of the art networking lab - free coffee

Cons

Lenovo System-X and Networking department is just a headless beast still moving out of inertia without any perspectives and without any clear and realistic future plan. In the Networking department they kept all the top managers from IBM and their inefficient and highly bureaucratic methods of project management leading to no real change. Software quality always comes last. Zero transparency about hiring / lay-offs in the other sites ( US, China, India, Germany ) after the acquisition of the department from IBM Bad HR practices : almost all employee requests/interactions are done via a web portal or email ( just a front end for an external service ) showing how little Lenovo actually really cares for it's [Romanian] employees. The existing Lenovo Romania employees (sales and marketing) made no real effort to integrate the System-X people coming from IBM, they have their own little cosy office corner space completely separated from the rest of the crowd. As I see things ( from a former communist country ) the company has an almost idolatrous propaganda agenda for the company's CEO Yang Yuanqing (YY) ( in induction YY was better and thoroughly presented then the emergency and fire hazard procedures ) I rated Culture & Values to 2 stars because Lenovo says the right things about this but in practice it fails to implement them. In Networking department "We own what we do" and "A company for DOers" are simply words on a wall and nothing more.

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Lenovo Response
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First, thanks for your time with us. You make some good points here. We are aware of some of the problems you mention. We are working on addressing them. Lenovo is not the type of company that accepts poor performance. Our CEO gets a lot attention internally because he is very good according to many outside publications.

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