Great if you work in the right group - Finance Director NIKE Employee Review

4.0
Oct 14, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Some good benefits - discounted product, lots of PTO once you've put in a few years, ESPP and profit share/match are great. Great child care centers. Flexible work hours and telecommuting available. Lots of lip service to work/life balance - in the right group you may even experience it (I do). Casual atmosphere and culture.

Cons

Big company with lots of office politics and excessive meetings. Seems like you have to be an athletic white male to have a good chance of promotion to upper management (not a lot of women and minorities up there). Communication is talked about a lot, but not followed through well (Case in point - tons of construction on campus right now, and close to zero communication to employees on the plans. Everything we know about the construction plans has come from external newspapers. Hopefully we'll get some info before the buildings are open, but I won't hold my breath.) Annual ("merit") salary increases barely keep up with inflation (for most of us, anyway... EVP's and above seem to be making out ok).

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Cons

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4.0
Jul 26, 2026
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Pros

Amazing campus, good pay, exclusive access to elite athletes

Cons

Distributed ownership means teams have very little influence and end up with departmental objectives that are mostly ineffectual fluff, yet annual review cycles increasingly tied to "impact" which the corporate inertia and politics make it nearly impossible to achieve. No real career advancement opportunities. Promotion process sets an impossibly high bar and the handful of promotions that do take place include clear cases of favoritism. Last but not least, the new CEO has sent a clear signal that he doesn't view the technology organization as integral to the future of the company. Big tech layoffs followed by surges in tech hiring in India. If you're in tech, look elsewhere.

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