I hate to leave Nike, but now I have a new opportunity to grow. Good bye and I wish you luck. I will be fully remote starting the new year. If you are not stuck in your role, there are plenty of opportunities and especially in tech. I wish you luck! "Don't Stop Believing", I didn't.
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I got a new job as Donkey Kong Jr.
I’d love to have a 100% fully remote job but I’d honestly be worried about job security. Seems to me that if a company had layoffs, they’d be most inclined to first dump the people no one actually knows: remote workers. Maybe I’m wrong about that though.
@2blw: I recently worked with one of those E-band DEI hires who was ‘placed’ in a job rather than competing for that job. I won’t name names of course but this person was/is a minor celebrity in a women’s sport. She retired from that sport and Nike hired her without the normal interviewing and qualification formalities.
After working with her, rather than being mad at her I actually felt bad for her. She’s a very nice person who also has NO business whatsoever occupying the role she’s in. While she’s sitting in a Director position she has the professional skills and talent for this job that I’d associate with a person just a year or two out of college. I had to help her put a pretty basic spreadsheet together in Excel because she literally had no idea how to use it. And in every other way I’ve worked with INTERNS who were more skilled than this “Director”.
I’m certain there were several highly qualified, capable U-Band employees who would have loved being promoted into this role. Instead they were passed over for what I can only honestly call a “charity hire”. At the E-Band level no less. If I had been in the running for that role I’d be mad. Really mad.
“Equality” and “diversity” should never mean putting unqualified or under qualified people in roles for which there are plenty of other more deserving candidates. That’s the ironic thing about “equality”. It often represents anything and everything BUT treating people equally.
Congrats! I’m on the way out, also. Landed a fully remote director role, with a 30% pay increase. Got tired of waiting around at Nike while unqualified DEI hires were gifted E-band roles.
A junior vp is the first level before vp and then svp and so on, depending on the company.
Congratulations! prepping to GTFO next year
what is a Junior VP?
Congrats! I left Nike for a tech company as well. Full remote and doubled compensation. I wish more people would use their skill set they acquired at Nike and branch out to other, greener pastures. Best of luck!