NIKE reviews

INCOMPETENT LEADERSHIP all protecting their fiefdoms who overtly BULLY others, and the ones who want to do well for Nike versus just themselves are quickly ostracized. Nike's leadership is coasting, just ask those who work there! It is resting on a brand that sells itself while the leadership sits fat, dumb and happy. Very few truly belong in the roles they have and if anyone points out that the emperor has no clothes they are bullied and made to look as if they are the problem...have seen it too many times. They say they are all about equal opportunity...but "honey will you get me my coffee" and just how many minorities are in roles of leadership, or those who aren't heterosexual??? It is embarrassing how poorly this company is managed in this era. And how about customer satisfaction? It's not about the customer, it's about who has the best idea, whether it's what the customer is asking for or not. The business is so heavily matrixed that no one is accountable, and yet they all live with their blinders on and in silos refusing to see they should all be part of the same team. It is mind-blowing the $$$Millions$$$ this organization throws away on a rolling calendar because it didn't use data to drive its mission. Living as cost centers and requiring charge backs for service among silos has driven the wrong behaviors and if they would quit satisfying their immediate appetite for longer-term gains they would enjoy much more employee satisfaction (which by the way is no higher than 30%) and only 100 people responded due to the lack of respect in feedback that has been given over the years.

The BIGGEST gripe by myself(actually why I left) and many, many others is the unfair promotion practices. It is their HR policy to promote from within first, etc., but almost all the higher up jobs go those coming in from outside the company. And if you do get bumped up from within it is because you are buddies with a VP or already have a family member in a position of power. Obviously that is not true in every case, but more often than not it is. I had meetings with HR about this and they acted shocked like this was going on, and told me and others it was against company policy. I get it's a big company and there are games to play, but it made me so sick I couldn't take it anymore. And I wasn't the only one. It is funny that for a place with such great benefits, high profile, etc, I have never been around more people unhappy with their jobs. A big reason is management is terrible. It really felt that they needed a VP of the VP's. It was that ridiculous with management overlap. Along those lines was a real lack of accountability on all levels too. That was sad, it makes everyone's life harder when no one is ever fired, and if you truly screw up you just get moved laterally. Once again, the buddy system at work. As you can see I feel strongly about the Cons. Even though I'm glad I worked there for the experience, I'm even happier that I left.