In place of my colleague, whom they tried to get rid off in various ways and make him leave on his own, came a person who is neither half interested in the job nor talented. A colleague who used to do that job found a job in another company without any problems, where he is doing much better now and even paid more.
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We couldn’t hire to save our lives in Tech. Part of the reason for all the outsourcing is that nobody good at an IC level in this country wants to work for us any more. We offer poor pay, no remote option, no innovation, no autonomy, and a nightmarishly political work environment. I don’t see anything changing since it’ll probably take us at least 20 years to burn through the talent in India and Europe with the same cr-p.
I left Summer from the consumer Direct sciences / consumer insights part of Nike; was in an executive level role for a few years. During one of my many interview cycles, leaving Nike, an interviewer mentioned to me (off-hand) that the Nike “brand” (lol) did not carry any weight outside of retail, and had no reputation really for strong data science / analytics / research.
For an org (CDS) with endless infighting, politicing and laughable grandstanding (have you ever seen so much disingenuous smirking and faux laughter on Zoom calls…ever?), I’m not sure you could find a less valuable currency…outside Beaverton, OR.
Fortunately, I did find my way out - and I wish you all find your way out too.
Short answer is no. Longer answer is layoff.com/nike
Better question is: do talented people want to work at Nike?
Nike is doing what Microsoft did in the late to 2000s with " perma temps" or having ETWs work 2080 hours a year then layed off.. Nike circumvents that by the 2080 rule.
It'll take a lawsuit to get Nike to come correct. Even then it won't phase them.
Yeah but my dad is a programmer from the 70s and he even told me then that Nike IT ...well they called it Informations Systems or was it Data Processing....whatever he told me Nike paid less then other companies in Portland.
So Nike has had a bad IT rep for a very long time and they continue to march a long. All they have to do is offer good money and people will come back....but will they? I feel like we are on the downslope of the "how good is nike" curve. Where they treat IT like a service and they want it cheaper and faster and will do whatever it takes to get there....4-10 years from now when all the systems are sh-t and everytime you make a change to one you have a global outage....they will then ramp up the pay and bring in the talen.
They likely can on the marketing/branding/artist side of the house. Nike still holds a lot of cache from a career standpoint in those spaces.
The word is out on Nike IT though in the PNW...not a good place to work at all and everyone knows it in the Tech community.