adidas Reviews

Former Employee – worked at adidas

Pros – discount at the employee store

Cons – micro management is a big no no

Advice to Senior Management – keep it simple and fun

Current Employee – been working at adidas

Pros – - Great benefits
- Good compensation compared to other retail stores
- Easy work
- Relaxing work environment
- Sociable co-workers

Cons – - Few growth opportunities
- Too much emphasis on sales
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Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at adidas

Pros – Fun place to work at.

Cons – Tiring sometimes because of the holidays.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at adidas

Pros – Bright colleagues challenging each other. Chance to move or travel internationally. Discount on products. Connected to sport daily if you seek it out.

Cons – All decisions come from Germans, like the decisions or fake like you like them, or leave. In Europe that style works very well and the company prospers. In Russia and China where huge focus has taken place more localization of decisions have benefited. The US struggles under management that is not American and no localized decision making. The remaining parts of the world are smaller markets and generally perform well with a European perspective.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at adidas

Pros – Good location, if you live in downtown Portland. On-site sample room for creating new product was awesome, extremely helpful.

Cons – 70% of my time was spent doing production/development, 30% on actual design. Simple processes were over-complicated, and when suggestions where were made to help simplify, the standard response was, "welcome to Adidas." People who had been there for years were extremely negative, most of the younger designers wanted to be working at Nike. The sweatshirt of choice for the apparel team was Uniglo, not even an Adidas sweatshirt. I think this says something about the brand. There's a lack of integrity, absolutely zero passion behind the product. Targeted consumer is a 17 year old suburban boy, which leaves very little opportunity to push the envelope and there's no risk taking, at all. Obvious, current trends were ignored. The team I worked with was surprised to find out that denim silhouettes have changed in the last 8 years!!.

Advice to Senior Management – Job titles/job description should match the job. Don't hire someone with 10 years of industry experience to do entry level production work. You must evolve, the brand, the product and the people.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at adidas

Pros – The two best things about adidas are it's rich history and the workforce.

Cons – No career paths, outdated technology and equipment, European management that doesn't understand American pop culture, too much red tape, undefined rolls and responsibilities,

Advice to Senior Management – It takes money to make money. In Europe you might be able to get away with simply making great product. In the US you have to get the message out and realize that adidas hasn't been the most relevant brand in sports and pop culture since the 80's. It's time to spend a lot more advertising money.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at adidas

Pros – Adidas is the number one sports apperal brand in the world. However, we were second to Nike in the USA. It was great to be apart of meetings and corperate game plans to how we as a staff could outwork Nike and become the number one reatiler in the United States.

Cons – Our home office was Portland, OR and our regional office meeting place was Dallas, TX. I was based out of Washington, DC so it's easy to see that we traveled all of the US for meetings,etc. I felt that we could cut costs by using "go-to-meeting" a little more, and get together as a group face to face maybe twice a year, not every other month. I felt it took away from my Area by traveling so much.

Advice to Senior Management – There was a lot of "red tape" to go through to make store level changes. As I have been taught and trained, I'm the person who lived in the area, knew the people and the land. So it made more sense to make it a "local store" and increase volume. The set up in LA was not going to work on the East Coast, but it took too long to make those changes happen.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at adidas

Pros – Great brand. Strong heritage. Very dedicated people in the field and in lower levels at corporate.

Cons – Senior management is more focused on keeping themselves employed and moving up the food chain with Germany than they are about the people who work for them. Very unsupportive environment that lacks openness and communication such that information is traded as a commodity to get ahead. Not focused on the investment in people or workplace health.

Advice to Senior Management – Focus on your people and they may not leave you in droves... the biggest brand is across the river and they are the biggest brand for a reason. They care about their people.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at adidas

Pros – Iconic global brand. Amazing benefits - Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K match. Great people. Fairly good advancement opportunities. Employee discounts on footwear, apparel and accessories.

Cons – Senior Management is running the adidas brand into the ground. The culture and employee moral is at an all time low.

Advice to Senior Management – Senior Management (in the US) needs to realize that employees want to see the brand suceed. They need to better invest in employees.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at adidas

Pros – competitive pay, flexible hours, good supervisors, excellent product discounts. Adidas provided me with an opportunity to work over the summer with flexible hours and were very accepting of conflicts.

Cons – At times the working conditions could be very warm, and the supervisors seemed to possess varying levels of aptitude. Could have used more engaging and interesting projects.

Advice to Senior Management – They should continue to expand and continue to look for new opportunities for their summer employees that best utilizes their talent.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend