How can a HR department be so bad for so long? Been at Nike for 16 years and it amazes me at how horrible Nike is at identifying talent in its own company and the process we have to undergo to get a new role.
Interviewed for a outside company and I thought the company was messing with me because of how much respect I was given by the HR team.
Any one keepin count of MM casualties by now its almost a dozen plus of her leadership team shes fired but she keeps hiring more that look and love just like her
Laughing at how quickly the MM posts get pulled down. Especially the one about useless people collecting big paychecks. They won’t go against MM because they know they can’t make it anywhere else. Meanwhile they are running HR into the ground. It was awful before and now it’s even worse
HR at Nike has never been good at managing the talent. I have joined in 2002 starting my interview process in 2001. After I joined because almost all my positions involved hiring, doing CFE with others and also firing occasionally, I can say that I know a bit about how HR operates or does not operate at Nike, at least until I left end of 2012. HR at Nike has never been about the employee or their well being. Since beg of 2000's they even went further making HR into an administrative function pushing all talent management responsibilities into managers at all levels, no manager had been ready for this, no training was provided to prepare them. All of a sudden, all managers were expected to do detailed talent reviews and career plans, on top of all other strategic and daily responsibilities. As you might know talent planning is something very serious and it should be done well in great detail beyond "who knows who and who likes who". But unfortunately the whole process was deliberately reduced exactly to that. Managers not knowing what and how to do around talent management became the messengers firing people carelessly throughout the regular re-orgs while they felt the fear of being fired themselves. Nike becoming more and more white-priviledged-male driven culture on the top, things went downhill very easily as many on mid and lower levels felt not properly managed, not at all cared about, not equally treated etc. As human nature sees the opportunity, unfortunately many of the employees took advantage of the lack of management and authority as well. Expenses were not properly checked and have been abused constantly, reselling shoes got out of hand as you all know it, your 10k running time became more important than the work you do etc. It is sad to see that the company is where it is now, and management do not seem to know how to deal with the culture they have created. noone is happy, but noone wants to leave either, because it is too good at Nike. You come in when you want, leave when you want, no pressure is put on performance because you can always go on sick leave, you get to make some extra bucks with your resell Jordans, managers are more obsessed with which tribe they need to be part of preparing for the next re-org instead of dealing with the employee base which is becoming more and more unmanageable and lazy. then they bring an outsider like JD to address this, and he ended up aiming to push out 75% of the workforce before he is greeted away with vested options and big fat check. At the end no insider wanted to do this. when JD is done and out, they will promote a "familiar and friendly face" from inside the company to lead you another 10 year. apologies for the long post and long sentences. take care.
HR at Nike might actually be it's WORST and most useless department for a plethora of reasons. Too much to type.
At the end of the day, they are only there to serve their masters, not employees. Never trust them.
I also have a saved picture of the HR all hands meeting - all blond middle aged white women, and one African American (guest speaker).
The entire HR function is a complete and utter joke, and not a funny one. How does MM manage to stick around?
Who remembers before COVID the HR executive team sat on stage at the all hands meeting all 9 white female and most bff’s of MM until she stabbed them in back and fired them. The African American man couldn’t wasn’t there so MM asked another African American man to sit on end of the stage too and never say a word. 9 white females and man who left Nike for obvious reasons. MM is absolutely quite literally the worst thing to happen to Nike ever
HR are useless. Poor leaders who are only in positions because of their best mates who are all female. Zero diversity from a function that’s meant to be leading by example.
I interviewed for a product role years ago and has to explain what SMU product was… so, not surprised
Aww, you still think HR is there to help the employees and not Nike and its management team. How sweet.
Nike is not that great of a brand anymore. Kind of out of style.
And it’s incredible how big and fat this horrible HR function is getting by the day. Nike has embarrassingly high number of HR people for its employee size, yet so little output and so much to be desired.
It is no secret that Nike’s HR function is a dumpster. I worked with HR and never again.