Good Place to Retire - Senior Data Scientist NIKE Employee Review

2.0
Jun 26, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Work-life balance is there, you can truly work 40 hours a week or less and still succeed. Summer hours are great, benefits are great, 401k matching is awesome. This is the perfect place to finish your career and coast into retirement. Also, looks great on your resume if you are early-career.

Cons

Duplicate work. The business has tension between "buy" vs. "build" and often has external vendors (or recently-acquired startups) competing against internal teams to build solutions. Vendors often win, which can be demoralizing for FTEs. Lots of work gets abandoned. Internal teams need to dedicate a lot of bandwidth to selling their work rather than doing their work. Huge organizational complexity. Death by meetings. So many meetings.

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Cons

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2.0
Jul 15, 2026
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Pros

discounted gear, a paycheck in a tough job market, free gyms

Cons

This company has completely given up on investing in its employees. Even during difficult times, it should still recognize, reward, and develop its strongest contributors. People who lead major, high-impact projects receive little to no recognition, reward, or career advancement and are treated the same as those who contribute very little. There are virtually no opportunities for growth or promotion, and favoritism seems to play a significant role in career progression. If your manager doesn't like you or doesn't advocate for you, advancement becomes even more difficult. The expectation is to continuously deliver more work with little or no recognition or investment in your career. I've worked at companies that paid significantly less than Nike, yet they were much better at recognizing talent by giving employees titles and responsibilities and projects that reflected their skills and contributions and interest. Here, unless you're one of the favored employees, there is little opportunity to grow, regardless of your impact. Again, if your manager has something against you, your future is very limited at Nike.

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