Steer clear of technology departments - Anonymous employee NIKE Employee Review

2.0
11 Nov 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Nike's an awesome brand with worldwide recognition. There's good perks, discounts and others for working there.

Cons

Technology departments that build Consumer apps are a joke. Management is a crony club that is verbally abusive to employees - very publicly. There is no recourse or mechanism to escalate these issues. Favoritism runs rampant. Work / life balance doesn't exist. You'll be expected to work 60-80 hour weeks to meet product launch schedules for ill-defined and ever changing deliverables. Nike will talk culture and values; they may exist somewhere, but not in technology.

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