Seems like a bunch of glorified project managers
Also lots of “Karen” energy in the leadership ranks.
What do they even do ?
13 replies (most recent on top)
These people are driving the culture down the drain. AC, JC, JL and others, they are all the same. They are YES men. Nobody has delivered anything real at Nike. They read stuff and pretend that they know. Bunch of clowns.
Waiting to hear more about the EDA and EAP backdoor deals
Who are all these GT people on this thread not realizing the OP was about nao
Lot of talkers in EDA and EDAP leadership. Too many backdoor deals among them. GT and business leadership have no idea all that’s going on. MD has to learn a lot if she really wants to make difference
JC spent millions on “platform”, created a lot of legacy and now poses as the one cleaning up complexity for Nike.
Impressive how MD has a lot to learn about Tech and who s who here.
JL has been running AI since he joined few years ago. Other building large organization and spending millions, he has done nothing of value. He prioritized many things, platforms included but delivered nothing. JC is complicit.
MD, JC, JL are promising hundreds of millions in savings or EBITDA through AI.
That is also what is being said on the earnings call.
But we know how it goes in GT: you overpromise, under deliver and get promoted.
Our CEO continues to dream about replacing software engineers with minimum wage ChatGPT jockeys.
Cost, success, or even the sanity of reinventing ECS & Lambda be da*ned.
I dream of the day where my cfe isn’t tied to the fevered dream of Copilot. Nearly all Nike’s tech can be simplified down to moving data from team A to team B.
You’ve written a single API, used Kafka once? Copy-paste is now more useful than that expensive autocomplete.
It’s just not that hard a job. The only reason teams are struggling is we’ve hired hundreds of unqualified contractors that don’t even know how to code. AI won’t fix that.
Tech Modernization org is cr-p…same people trying to do service platform and platformization for last many years without any valuable outcome for Nike.
Leadership should be fired
GT is beyond salvation, specially with the people that are in charge.
If I learned something from this reorg, is that the politics won big time.
As said here before - vps created the mess and now are being glorified by cleaning up. Job security much? Good job DA, JC, AC, JH, EC, TT, MF, CF
Outsource tech is the answer
So many people managers, directors, sr directors, and VPs are paid huge salaries to do little to nothing. It’s straight robbery. People who actually perform and deliver value at their managerial rank are the minority. No wonder Nike is struggling. Terrible talent management. We’re relying on old brand equity and it won’t last forever. Nike is on track to gradually decline into mediocrity.
You got it right.
In GT, you have key initiatives with at least three different program mgrs: one within the domain, then Tech Modernization (driven by the JC and his friends who actually created all the mess - ie “distinguished engineer” AC) and then NAO.
And who is doing the work? An underpaid ETW, whose contract will expire in two more weeks.