Excellent salary and time off. Good choices for benefit plans, and nice amenities on the campus sites. Good R&D and diversification of product and service makes them very stable in the market.
Cons
Global teams means that you work all the time to accommodate Asia time zone as well as your own. Managers do attempt to be flexible but reality intervenes. The more functions that are moved to China means that loss of knowledge can get to a critical point quickly, resulting in stress and frustration to meet deadlines. Flat management structure means that teams are empowered, but there is little opportunity for promotion.
Lenovo Response
10y
Great feedback and you describe the time zone challenges of a global role well.
Thank you for all your work over the years!
Good place to work overall, kind people. Generally competent practitioners
Cons
Company is very slow to change. Executive leadership does not care about employee work-life balance at all. Was routinely expected to be on calls as early as 6AM and as late as midnight on the same day. When I raised concerns about sustainability, I was put on a PIP
