Choices - Anonymous employee NIKE Employee Review

Nike is a "marketing machine". It's not what you can offer but how good you play the game. Skills and experience are not important but "gamesmanship" is a must and critical. If you are skilled at your profession the internal Nike lifers will soon destroy your career. Skills, experience, and brains are not wanted. It's a bully and toxic work environment. Personally, if I have known better, I would not have made this a career choice. It is easy to get caught up in the Nike Hype and romance of the Nike brand but the employment culture is extremely toxic. If you are minority (race and gender), this is not the place. This is a culture dominated by Caucasians. If you're over 40s, your career is frozen and they will discretely target you for "removal". If you're over 50s, stay where you are. One of the tactics to push people out include: Asked the targeted team to a meeting and then split them into different conference rooms. Voila, laid them off. Nike Golf is a great example of how they "value" employees. Nike made a public announcement they will terminate making Nike Golf equipment and only keep the sports apparel. The next morning, employees were told to go to a conference room. If your name was on a white board, you were to collect your severance and shown the door. (Cold hearted!) If you want to see the talent-exit do your search on LinkedIn. Set your search criteria from 2013 - Present. Look for yourself at all the well known experts who have "suddenly" left Nike. Unless you have over 15-years of employment with Nike, you will soon find yourself unemployed. Contractors: They treat contractors as strangers on the street; cold and ruthless. The only difference is you can walk into building and have a desk to work on your assignment. You have no place to recommend or suggest anything. Key to success of managing your career: Exist strategy