Designer - Mechanical Artist NIKE Employee Review

3.0
Mar 5, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great benefits, flexible hours, carpool incentives, free samples especially if you work in apparel.

Cons

Salaries are way below current market. With so many applicants a year, Nike knows that they can hire top talent for cheep. People want to work for Nike! So Nike low balls you knowing you'll take it to get your foot in the door. Then Nike cleans house every 5 years. Meaning layoffs! This is to eliminate higher paid employees and bring in new lower paid employees with fresh ideas. Like, applicants just out of collage or design school. Nike sells a great story. I thought I was going to make a difference there being a designer in the apparel division. But your just another number among hundreds of other designers replaceable at any moment. Working up the corporate ladder is slow and at time painful. After 6 years of dedicated service, I left and started my new job making 10K more a year then I was making at Nike.

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Cons

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Pros

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