I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at NIKE (Portland, OR)
Interview
I was recruited via LinkedIn. The recruiter set me up with interviews across different departments since it's a matrix organization, but it wasn't clear to me which specific role I was interviewing for at any given time. I thought I was talking to someone about the first role we'd discussed, but found out the recruiter was putting me up for a different role only when asked for specific feedback about the person's department. I would have prepared differently had I known I was actually speaking about a second role. A great, innovative company with disorganization on the recruiting side : / I also had a scheduled interview that was canceled without anyone telling me.
I applied online. I interviewed at NIKE (Beaverton, OR) in Mar 2018
Interview
Cool place, horrible post interview recruiting experience.
My process started with a screening call with the recruiter, followed by a 1 hour phone interview with the hiring manager. A second interview with a recruiter who told me that they narrowed it down to 2-3 candidates. I was then invited to campus for a full day of on sight interviews and a casual lunch interview. I opted to fly in that morning instead of them booking a hotel the night before.
The campus is exactly what it's talked up to be. Really amazing atmosphere and they give you a tour before your interviews start.
All of the interviewers were great and showed interest in hearing my answers. Fairly easy questions around culture and and marketing experience. The team was made up of mostly old school branding folks, and so there weren't many tough digital strategy/advertising questions.
I was given $300 to the Nike store after my interview and then the recruiting coordinator mentioned "the team had great feedback and the recruiter will follow up with next steps.
I didn't hear a single word after that day. I followed up 3 times cordially and didn't get a response which was super strange to me. Two of the interviewers responded to my follow up thank you's and nothing seemed out of the ordinary.
Eventually a friend told me that they hit a hiring freeze and ended up rolling-up the role into a different team. Pretty frustrating experience to be ghosted, especially after connecting and having a great experience during the interviews.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about a time....
Talk about working with team members....
What would you do differently with the digital campaigns....
What is your favorite Nike product and why?
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at NIKE (Portland, OR) in Aug 2013
Interview
Complex matrix organization, smart people. Had many conversations, one call was with someone driving to work who had never seen my resume. Had another call that never happened, was told the person who scheduled it had left the company and that the call was supposed to have been canceled. Not super impressed with their internal organization. Note: they tried to recruit me, originally found me on LinkedIn. Did not communicate about the process or specific roles I may have been speaking to them about. If you can see past that, could be a great place, I'm sure! I stopped talking to them when they schedule a call for me that I didn't know was about a specific role, the role they initially contacted me about was filled internally but they didn't tell me about it until after the awkward phone call and I directly asked the recruiter. They said they wanted me to fly out to meet a bunch of people, but when I said I was scheduled on the original date they never mentioned coming out again. Too many schedulers involved. The difference in quality of communication between admins and the execs was marked.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Nothing out of the ordinary, asked about the market in general and products they were building as well as categories of innovation I saw for the coming years.