Those left behind after last week's layoffs had no say in where they land, are in jobs thry would NEVER interview for, are not allowed to talk to engineering partners about what is going on, and have no say. Corporations don't care. Don't buy the Nike culture bulls***. Upper level management inside sources say LinkedIn was used to decide who would stay and go in some cases. Not job performance not current managers. Psychotic and it will backfire. There are no secrets, Nike, no matter how hard you try to hide. Be grateful if you got let go last week
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Why is everyone disagreeing confirmed sources say "someone" in nike HR Org who could be anyone from compensation and whatever other HR function, and at the highest level used LinkedIn, its likely true.
Does it really matter who in HR? Leaders can get information anyway they can, this shouldn't be a surprise.
And Yes most leaders have no idea who has been carrying the workloads and what folks actually do. Leaders always compliment the wrong people for the company growth anyway. That is what got us into this mess before and will be the new mess.
Recruiters will be busy replacing talent with a younger and more inclusive ratio.
And note the little diversity at the top, still.
Someone commented Nike recruiters have been viewing their LinkedIn profile so must be true - recruiters haven't been involved in or been given any insight into the CDA work so have no more info than the rest of the non-HR employees.
If Nike recruiters are looking at your profile it's because they're recruiters and you likely popped up in their search results or they're just looking to network because they could be impacted eventually too. The only HR folks who really know what's happening re CDA are the HR Directors and HRBPs.
You guys are surprised HR does not know what they are doing? Having worked with HR on an older reorg they were in the dark on what people’s loaded cost was plus even what cost centers the heads were in. The data they needed to do such analysis was in their own sap hr system. They could not do it so finance had to do the analysis for them based on their data.
Having started at Nike as a designer, but then being asked to do a ton of other roles, I can imagine it would be hard for them to really understand what people actually do, or want to be doing. I doubt they actually saved the resume I submitted when I interviewed, so LinkedIn is the next best thing. I guess it's good they're actually looking at that stuff... I can't tell you how many times I've gotten a new manager who had zero interest in my skills and experience.
This is confirmed from HR source. The system only saves job title and rating but not what the job IS. HR used LinkedIN to make decisions on people because they did not know what they actually did!
Disappointing to see high performers gone due to lack of accountability and lack of transparency.
Agree in part. My linked in profile was viewed several times since Aug by nike recruiters. They did skill assessment on everyone. They definitely used linked in and may have reviewed competitor job descriptions of same roles. Who wouldn't be in their linked profile when a reorg is announced leaving you waiting several months.
According to managers they tried to provide input. It is unclear if they knew what they were doing. Again same people making new decisions also made the old structure.
My job changed to something I would never appy for, and a giant step backwards, and disrespectful to my work and the millions of dollars the product i worked on that contributed to company growth in recent years. I do think some teams were hand picked by leaders. Nothing culturally has changed in terms of old boys club, the network system, and who you know.
People may have forgot, back in January HR and team leaders lead team meetings talking about how they were building the talent base to carry the company forward. From that some people got promotions and it certainly shows in the new org structure. They made several errors and seemed unprepared by presenting the new org structure, meaning they can't explain why new job levels showed up for some and others were not considered. Some people kept titles and others changed. New org looks as complicated as the old structure, nothing I've ever seen in my career. A bad copy of a competitors org structure.
@gcs - no. They have limited knowledge of the background of employees. Linked in and any resume on file was likely used to understand skills.
Do they look at if you’ve turn on “Open to Work”? Like you’re turning your back on the cult or something?
What is NDP?
OK...let's say it is real. How was LinkedIn used to determine if you stay or go?
Not baseless. It’s real. Sad and true.
Seriously? This is baseless and irrational accusation.
Upper level management inside sources say LinkedIn was used to decide who would stay and go in some cases.
Genuinely curious - how would they use Linkedin to make decisions like this? Not everyone is on LinkedIn let alone even updating their profile.