Poor - Anonymous employee NIKE Employee Review

1.0
Nov 23, 2025
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

You can take a break every couple of hours

Cons

The work environment is dominated by poor leadership and unhealthy management behavior. Employees are often minimized, spoken to disrespectfully, and made to feel small so leadership can feel in control. There is clear favoritism, with certain employees overloaded and held to impossible expectations while others with higher titles contribute very little but receive more recognition. Plus employees in lower ranks ideas are credited to management and higher ups. Not only you do not see rewards for your ideas, but management creates illusions, breadcrumbs you and is not supportive to create opportunities for growth for some people, to promote you. You are stuck in your band/level environment with close to zero opportunities for moving up until you leave Nike, even though your responsibilities and skills are 2,3 levels higher. The culture encourages using people and not rewarding them accordingly to their skills and levels, encourages competition, and pitting people against each other. Some employees are allowed to work remotely, while others are required to come into the office. the environment is fear-based and demoralizing. Managers could benefit from training focused on equitable treatment, emotional intelligence, and creating a healthier, fairer work culture. This working culture is extremely detrimental to your mental state and very very unhealthy and super toxic.

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Pros

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Cons

This company has completely given up on investing in its employees. Even during difficult times, it should still recognize, reward, and develop its strongest contributors. People who lead major, high-impact projects receive little to no recognition, reward, or career advancement and are treated the same as those who contribute very little. There are virtually no opportunities for growth or promotion, and favoritism seems to play a significant role in career progression. If your manager doesn't like you or doesn't advocate for you, advancement becomes even more difficult. The expectation is to continuously deliver more work with little or no recognition or investment in your career. I've worked at companies that paid significantly less than Nike, yet they were much better at recognizing talent by giving employees titles and responsibilities and projects that reflected their skills and contributions and interest. Here, unless you're one of the favored employees, there is little opportunity to grow, regardless of your impact. Again, if your manager has something against you, your future is very limited at Nike.

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