NIKE Reviews

Pros

people, environment, fun industry sector, global company, lots of job movement and can go where ever you want so long as hard working and patient

Cons

can be a complex and a bit emotional (vs analytical) place to work. change/initiatives are sometimes hard due to matrix and can be frustrating if you are impatient but if it is a good idea it will happen.

Advice to Senior Management

we need to become a more analytically run company as we get larger but as we do this we should focus in key areas/functions to do this vs just applying to all. some areas are already doing and don't need as much oversight.

Pros

The people in the trenches are awesome to work with and become great friends. If you love sports this is the place for you. The culture of sports and being around others who love sports is amazing.

Cons

Since the layoffs in 2009 there has been a big shift in the mentality of the Senior Leadership. Self-Preservation is taking precedence over team building. Leaders are micro-managing suboridinates more and more and not allowing people to do their job. It is becoming a big corporation with all the political trappings.

Advice to Senior Management

Stop micromanaging people and let them do their work. Senior Leaders need to make teambuilding a prioritty. The self-preservation of senior leadership does not lend itself to a lot of trust.

Pros

Good benefits; good work-life-balance; team work

Cons

Advancements base on friendships but no base on achievements
Salaries are below industry standard comparing to similar position
Excessively dependent on external temporary workforce

Pros

Good benefits. Discounts to many great companies and partners.

Cons

The factory stores are grunt work. The corporate jobs get all the perks and the only jobs that get recognition within Nike. NikeTown offers good opportunities as well but the the factory stores are slave ships

Advice to Senior Management

Dont treat employees like slaves. when the numbers are up, show some appreciation every once in a while by having events and treating the people who slave to make your profits to a nice time

Pros

Great Discount, Good management, Good advancement opportunity.

Cons

Not much opportunity for collateral movement.

Pros

I loved the process from unloading a truck to processing the stock and then refilling the floor with the new items and know I DID THAT!

Cons

Have people hired in making more than you ,then having to train them, Reading about benifits only to be turned down when you ask for them. Do the right thing must only apply to those lowly people who make less than 30 k a year. Haveing burned out mannagement . I thought I worked for a GREAT company , sadly I was wrong.

Advice to Senior Management

Have your Experts look into your new process for S & R , You are going to cause tons of problems having people stand at a table all day doing the exact thing . Look at your managers ,put in new blood at least every few years, DO THE RIGHT THING, If it says it in the Employee handbook JUST DO IT!

Pros

Met some fabulous people all feeling the disdain of incompetent leadership.
Very bright people (subordinates with high degrees) work there that try to make a difference and live the Nike maxims.
The campus is beautiful and there are great networks to get involved with regularly if that's of interest. Occasionally, premiere athletes show up and you may get a glimpse of them. Box seats to certain Portland athletic events, discounts on product but you need to wear the product anyway.

Cons

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.

Advice to Senior Management

You are too internally focused! It's not YOU that matters, it's the CUSTOMER that buys your product. If things do not change soon, it is fully expected that competition will easily surpass your antiquated model of business.

Mark Parker should involve himself at a much greater depth in the businesses so he can see firsthand the spoils of victory. I highly doubt he would approve.

Pros

-Awesome discount of 40% in store and online. Also get discounts to Hurley, Converse, and Cole Haan.
-Starting pay is decent, better than anywhere else I have worked.
-Management is very understanding and flexible with time off and/or schedule changes if given enough notice.
-The management really makes an effort to create a fun, upbeat atmosphere, which makes you actually WANT to come to work.
-Good communication between management and employees.
-Awesome staff who really care about their job and the brand.

Cons

-Not much room for raises, I think they only give them once a year?
-They give "bonus checks" at the end of each quarter, but if you are a part-time employee, they are less than $100 usually (depending on how many hours you worked and how the store did in sales).
-You have to reapply is you want to be considered for a full-time position.

Advice to Senior Management

-Focus more on atmosphere in the store rather than sales goals.
-Offer more performance incentives at a store level.
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Pros

If you are energetic, ambitious, competitive, athletic, and want to learn, challenge, and make things better this is a amazing place to work!

Cons

Like many large companies NIke can be exhausting due to its high energy, politics, and matrix environment.

Advice to Senior Management

Maintain the culture, keep yourself accessible, reward people that seek new challenges. It would be great to add more framework around long term career paths so people continuously evolve and grow!

Pros

confidence, brave, great, honest, loyal

Cons

i am fed with the boss