NIKE Reviews in Portland, OR Area

Pros

Everyone is energetic and happy. Nike takes care of its employees. They enjoy plenty of PTO and can workout anytime they feel like it. It encourages healthy living and a productive un-stagnant atmosphere.

Cons

The way the company is organized can be difficult to get up to speed. It takes a long time to learn all the different ways to get to the right information in order to do your job.

Advice to Senior Management

You are doing a great job. Everyone seems happy and appreciated for the work they do. Keep up the good work!

Pros

Opportunities for lateral role moves
Good benefits like sabbaticals after 10yrs of service
Great to work with the #1 company in the industry
Athlete visits

Cons

Limited advancement upwards
Poor Managers not being trained
Work/Life balance sometimes ignored until it is too late

Advice to Senior Management

Train your lower level managers. Good people are leaving due to their incompetence and the lack of action from you.

Pros

Workout facilities, benefits, 401K, Onsite food, child care facility, casual work atmosphere, company resources, good autonomy at senior staff level.

Cons

Outrageous acts of hubris, turn and burn HR recruiting – retention practices, low-no tolerance for functioning outside of the functional “silo” ( marketing, development, design). High school clique culture as a mainstay of command and control.

Advice to Senior Management

Get out of Beaverton and take some managemnet classes.

Pros

good employee discount, good and open minded leadership (in my area). Less office politics and most of them are trying to get the work done.

Cons

I am working as an ETW (External Temp. Worker) and I would say at least 25% of the work force working on the WHQ are ETW. When you are an ETW, you don't enjoy the benefits and the promotion you deserved. (And you also happen to see a lot of employees to stay at NIKE for ages... like 10+, 20+ or even 30+ years) And this particular item can be good or bad depends on how you see it.

Advice to Senior Management

Move your good/effective ETW to be your employee, show them there is a door to really enjoy NIKE as a whole. Not just an out-sider all the time.

Pros

Great opportunity for growth within

Cons

Must know someone to get a job

Advice to Senior Management

Keep up the good work

Pros

It is a very respectful work environment with tight deadlines and intense goals. Company is very innovative, which leads to a decent amount of disarray, but the people who work there are used to dealing with it. You need to be very adaptable to work here. The culture is fantastic - very casual with lots of friendships among co-workers. Total benefits are very good, when you consider employee pricing, on-site fitness centers, on-site daycare, and a beautiful work environment.

Cons

The competitiveness of the environment makes open positions very competitive as well. As such, many good people have a hard time getting promoted. But most people with a lot of drive have success finding new opportunities within.

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

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

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.