NIKE Reviews

Pros

Constantly innovating, trying to do the right thing. People are awesome, culture is intensely athletic. The unique benefits are nice like the gym the clothes, and athlete visits. If you love sports you'll love it.

Cons

the company is intentionally a complicated network, so getting things done requires legwork, visits and maybe some bartering

Pros

Liberal time off policy, room to create.

Cons

Advancement can be difficult for many

Pros

Nike has a nice benefits package. Employees get good discounts on merchandise. Most employees dress very informally, which is nice.

Cons

Immature development culture. Lots of overtime expected. No on-boarding of new employees. No process. Management attempts to solve problems by throwing more people at them. Unrealistic deadlines. Working on the weekend is not atypical.

Pros

The experience of being a part of such a well known Global dominant company is priceless. The team aspect is great.

Cons

It is very hard to make money with Nike because of the great discount and products that Nike has available to the consumer.

Advice to Senior Management

Management does a great job of making sure that there is a great tram inspired atmosphere. They create a great environment that everyone would want to be a part of.

Pros

The people and the experiences that you gain from the opportunity. The potential athletes is a bonus.

Cons

Pursuing a field in business does not provide that many benefits in promotions as most of the company is focused on design.

Pros

Great Atmosphere
Great Uniform
Great Discount on nike products and Affiliated companies
Great Wages..What more can you ask for in a Job

Cons

Sometimes you get scheduled for days you request off, even if you requested in the time you were alotted. I guess this means bad management. And there was really no solution for the influx of customers we would get, it would just be huge battlefield especially during the weekends which made working pretty stressful and there is a lot of international customers so the language barrier could sometimes be a problem too

Advice to Senior Management

Spread the common/popular product around the floor so the associate that is working there doesnt feel overwhelmed since its usually in one area.

Pros

If you are enthusiastic about your work, results driven and always looking for ways to improve this is the place to be.
Nike rewards individuals that are highly skilled and deliver results.
The Lean movement adopted across all Nike is helping reducing waste and politics.

Cons

Sometimes the work-life balance is forgotten, but things are slowly improving.
In spite of the lean movement there are still too many layers of management that all need to be involved in major decisions to get things done.
Like in most big companies people are being referred to as 'resources' and that says a lot.

Advice to Senior Management

Accelerate the lean movement and adoption to ensure Nike will do even better.
Create a flat organizational structure (the re-org 2 years ago didn't change enough) that ensures decisions can be made faster and the people with ideas or doing the work have better access to directors or senior directors to discuss ideas.

Pros

Great discounts
Active company
Great co workers
Athletic lifestyle

Cons

Lack of management
No time off

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to employees more. Don't hire from within (corporate level)

Pros

Awesome people, awesome culture, awesome company

Cons

people move around from position to position way too fast

Advice to Senior Management

keep up the culture, that's what makes Nike totally awesome

Pros

The Nike campus and community are second to none. People love working here. Work and home life balance is more achievable here than other companies - family time is encouraged. The employee gym is great - best in class. Love seeing major athletes on campus. Nike does care tremendously about its' people and makes the extra effort to hire back good people they may have previously had to lay off.

Cons

Too much documentation and not enough hands on 'doing' for some positions. Lots of positions are actually portions of jobs with many hand offs - kind of like whisper down the lane. Rarely does one work on something from concept to launch. Everyone is too replaceable. Many feel that way and move on quickly to something else just when they got the hang of their previous position.
Weather here is worse than they tell you, so be prepared and bring rain boots.

Advice to Senior Management

Teams could be so much more efficient. Apparel could be coordinated with footwear and accessories to drive more sales and make consumers happier with ensemble looks. There is a lot of waste in terms of redundant resources due to walled silos between divisions and highly competitive managers that seem not wanting to share. People in the same buildings don't share much information at all - not even to join each others' holiday parties. There needs to be more team integration departments - maybe a team of experts knowledge bank that mentors. There are a few people who are patent happy - they don't check out information and feasibility before racing to file or are too quick to tag onto others' work for credit. Lengthy time lines can be frustrating to green light projects - mangers change multiple times during process and wheels need to be reinvented constantly.