Culture of deception and layoffs - Software Engineer Lenovo Employee Review

1.0
14 Apr 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Great company for the employee who has no future.

Cons

Pumped us up with promises that we would be free from IBM issues. Told us everything would be continued in the current locations. I was part of the IBM sale of the x-series division to Lenovo. They basically took what they wanted, divested what they didn't, and layoffs came from that. I would have liked to had the chance to work 2 more years and retire with 30 years from IBM. Instead, I lost a lot of retirement money and was unemployed. The whole mess just stunk! They should have been up front from the start, and let us transfer to other jobs within IBM since they had no plans to keep us anyway. Instead we were forced to go to Lenovo.

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5.0
22 Jun 2026
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Pros

Absolutely love my team, people, culture, and work events. Genuinely I can't think of any cons. 3 days in-person, 2 days remote. Best work life balance ever, and great pay. Even intern benefits are amazing

Cons

None that I can think of

1.0
7 Jul 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Interesting work, good benefits, talented colleagues

Cons

Terrible manager behavior, terrible work-life balance, with no recourse or support for employees. I joined and quickly found that the ED I reported to had no experience in the area he oversaw, would not listen to anyone who had experience, was mean to his team members, and set wildly unrealistic expectations without any clear direction or consistency. Bullying, meanness and pointless criticism were the norm, while leadership was completely lacking. And if you work on the Digital Transformation team, expect to spend from 8PM-11PM at night and early morning on calls, with little regard for sleep or work-life balance. The worst part was finding out that the HR team was already well aware of all these problems with my ED (the two other managers under him quit), and the leadership team had no intention of making any changes. So disappointing.

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