NIKE reviews

Compensation is not very competitive, as Nike uses its brand as a primary recruiting tool. The company is basically separated into two camps: Brand and Non-Brand Operations. The brand side of the business focuses on innovation, elevation and diversity of thought (to align to our brand ambassadors and target consumers), whereas the operations, or non-brand, side of the business is pretty old school. Things are changing a bit, as competition has forced Nike to become more innovative in digital tech, manufacturing, and supply chain; however you won't get very far running a West Coast (spread) offense if the coaches only know how to run a Wishbone set.

Lost culture, over-worked and underpaid staff, and politics run crazy in a company that no longer has to watch the bottom line. When Nike and I parted ways last year after 12 years, NIKE was paying most junior staff peanuts to work extremely hard with little chance of promotion, far from campus in Hillsboro business parks, by capitalizing on "THIS IS NIKE!" Only a small minoirty of the "cool kids" worked on the actual campus with access to all the facilities and fun. Most worked in business parks further away. I worked in a division of IT where utterly clueless directors and above frequently phoned it in. They'd show up, plot political games, take a two hour lunch, and disappear again to "meetings". Our systems were in terrible shape, we had MASSIVE technical debt, and absolutely NOTHING was secure. Senior staff was all hired from outside the company to do jobs they didn't understand except one Dutch guy that was the most immoral political operator I've ever witnessed. He regularly used HR and ER to turn his enemies into HR "liabilities" after which they were unjustly terminated. There's a spacial place in hell for that guy. Most of my friendly coworkers over the years were eventually pushed out of their jobs by politics, the smallest mistake, or because they had a job someone powerful wanted for a friend.