I’ve had 10 teammates leave in the past 3 years, 6 of them returned and another trying to come back. Why do people come back here always? Is it that they’re trying to relive good times or maybe the market su-ks?
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They come back due to family pressure. All they want are the Nike discounts!!!!
Because while it's easy to get disenfranchised, the grass is not greener on the other side, it's just different shi++y grass. The neighbor ripped out their lawn and replaced it with Bermuda Grass, which has it's own problems.
I’ve worked at MAANG. Nike’s pretty cool and my pay is still top, more than my last job. Work life balance is amazing, so I’d come back if I had left for whatever reason. The only thing that was better at MAANG was that more people were high performers/highly intelligent (not all!), whereas here it’s a hit or miss. The work I do is equally challenging here compared to what I was doing at MAANG, probably more impactful at Nike. So it’s been better for my resume and experience and really depends on what you’re working on or what your other options are.
Nike doesn’t su-k. It might have lost its edge. It might have lost its way. Nike pays well. It’s a cool industry. You people get opportunities that others could only dream about. I work for the competitor across town. I wouldn’t come back to Nike, but the place offered me the skills and ethos that have led me to a long career.
Isn’t that the only way to get a promotion? Get the title from another employer, then come back and deliver at the job title you were passed over on either hiring from within or being actually promoted into multiple times.
Because Nike is an extremely easy place to work. Mediocrity is the norm. Most Nike lifers would drown immediately working anywhere else.
The real world is hard. People realize that once they leave The Swoosh....ok get smacked in the face and realize they are not up for having to work a full day, perform and be held accountable. Thoes who can do. Thoes who can't work at Nike.
Nike where young people go to retire.
yes which is why, if you're young and can do so, leave! go get experience elsewhere. this place will su-k you dry and you will no longer be competitive in the real world. I'm on the outside now - I survived. But it's not that easy to do so.
No place is as easy at any level and function as Nike. You have competitive pay, no accountability, most resources and brand strength behind you.
Don’t get it twisted.
But - it does make it difficult to survive on the outside if Nike is all you know and gotten used to. So when you leave - on your own or due to layoffs, always keep that in mind
They come back because they can’t cut it anywhere else and realize that or get fired. They spent so much time at Nike that their brains are mush and dont have any other skills
Trust me it's super easy to survive at Nike for the high performers. The bar is so low and the workload is far from high for the most part. As for low performers, you don’t really have the pressure or urgency to learn new skills to stay competitive at Nike and no one really cares anyway. At least that’s why I am still sticking with Nike.
Sadly, for a lot of people, their religion, family, friends, purpose and identity are all Nike. They have no idea what their life can be without it because they haven’t built a life outside of it. Over-investment in any one thing is dangerous, most employees are blinded by this reality. That’s why they can’t fathom leaving.
There aren’t a lot of jobs in Portland and yes the market su-ks. Just about every company has laid off in the last year.
Intel, in the thousands. Estée Lauder , 7k. Adi, currently hacking up Herzo. Reebok, destroyed, cut everyone and moved out of Boston. Saucony, cut and consolidated offices with Ww. The list goes on and on both inside and outside our industry.