News Lenovo Eyes Job Cuts Due to Weakened PC Market

[Admin]

Lenovo, the world's biggest computer company, will cut jobs amid a weak PC market.

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[Deleted member 14196]

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Here’s wishing good luck to everybody who might be getting laid off

 

[ThatMouse]

When I was shopping Lenovo for laptops last year they were out of stock of everything.

 

[jkflipflop98]

Hopefully they don't cut too deep. All these recent tech layoffs seem like a knee-jerk to me.

Yeah, currently everything is all bleak and cloudy - but there's going to be one heck of a boom a few years in the future. It takes a while to get a high-skilled tech employee up to speed. If you wait until the boom happens to hire a bunch of new people, then you're going to have a bunch of quality issues at the same time you're trying to ramp like crazy. Not a good combination.

If you bite the bullet now and keep paying your currently highly trained and highly skilled workers, you'll be able to rapidly pump out a goldmine later down the line when you need them the most. Everyone else's factories will be full of clueless noobies and the few old dogs that know how the place works will be tied up training said noobies while you're humming along at 110% efficiency.

 

[digitalgriffin]

Hopefully they don't cut too deep. All these recent tech layoffs seem like a knee-jerk to me.

Yeah, currently everything is all bleak and cloudy - but there's going to be one heck of a boom a few years in the future. It takes a while to get a high-skilled tech employee up to speed. If you wait until the boom happens to hire a bunch of new people, then you're going to have a bunch of quality issues at the same time you're trying to ramp like crazy. Not a good combination.

If you bite the bullet now and keep paying your currently highly trained and highly skilled workers, you'll be able to rapidly pump out a goldmine later down the line when you need them the most. Everyone else's factories will be full of clueless noobies and the few old dogs that know how the place works will be tied up training said noobies while you're humming along at 110% efficiency.

#truth

Hiring contractors all the time is a sure way to lower your product quality. I've seen it time and time again. Only a few skilled full time employees left who are stuck in their ways and not modern at all. And then they bring in contractors for a product feature surge. These contractors do not care about quality. They care about how much they can bill you for. They try to get away with just meeting AC to get paid without caring about side effects of their code. They will just make it a follow-up ticket to fix a deficiency they can get paid for. Well if they did it right in the first place, that wouldn't be an issue.

But the data suggest it's going that companies are dropping full time employees as they try to control CapEx. (Full time employee cost). Contractors come at them with the pitch "hey we can save you money. You can fire us anytime you want and you don't have to pay benefits.". Then the contractor comes after programmers going "we'll pay you more per hour than your old job". First off that's a lie. They are paying you less once you count benefits. And they are skimming 20% and 40% off the top for themselves. It's a sweet deal for them. Not the workers. And truth is most of these contractors firms go for overseas help first till they run out H1B visas. Then they come to you and offer the same job for the same pay. I had many try to pawn off $50/hour with no benefits as great pay...and I would have to pay for a second place to live. I made $75/hour + benefits. When I tell them this I get the same broken English "are you sure you can't accept $50?". I say "Maybe that's great pay where you live. But that isn't going rate here." And I hang up and put them on my spam list.

 

[bit_user]

I feel for the workers and I appreciate that my Lenovo laptop is still going strong and works well under Linux. That said, my next laptop will be Dell, due to their new sourcing strategy:

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/dell-plans-to-phase-out-chinese-chips-from-pcs-by-2024

When a company institutes a policy you agree with, you've got to vote with your wallet.

It's just too bad I'm nowhere close to buying another laptop, right now. Not that mine is exactly recent, but rather that I just don't really need a personal machine on the go, lately, and it's adequate if/when I do.