I often hear people complain about long hours and I can't help but think it's their own fault. Nike will take whatever hours you freely offer them without complaint. I do my job well within my scheduled time and my reviews are fine. Protecting your personal time is ultimately up to you, and remember there's always another job out there.
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Long hours at Nike, LMAO. You must not be in tech. Any half decent deb could half a-s the workload and still out perform most other people. I know I brought in some people I used to work with as etws while they were between jobs. They smoked everyone else.
@a9 this is real, most of Nike tech isn't prepped for getting a job in engineering outside of Nike. The interviews are going to be rough for most of them. Knowing some SQL is not enough to get a job. No one use aws console directly in production. Everyone knows how to use apps and the protocol shouldn't be a challenge.
Whether Nike’s pay is high or not depends on what you do. For my corporate support function I make considerably more at Nike than I’d make at any other company in the area. I might not even make as much up in Seattle. My total comp package is THAT high for my role. (Numbers: My total comp is around $165k-$175k. At any other company in the area my skillset total comp wouldn’t top $120k, and most people in this role don’t even break six-figures. My Nike total comp is definitely top 5% on the West Coast.)
I’m lucky and I know it. My situation isn’t that unique though. There are a lot of other people at Nike who are also very well-compensated for their jobs.
Some people may not be as well-paid. Again it depends on what you do and what the overall labor market is for your skillset. But in my observation Nike isn’t underpaying too many people. Otherwise retention would be an issue. Why would anyone stay at Nike if they could easily make more money somewhere else in the area? I’ve known quite a few people who have left over the years. Only a few left for higher pay and almost all of them had connections that helped them get those jobs.
But really, all you need to do to understand that Nike employees usually make out well is take a walk through the parking lots. My husband works at a mid-sized non-profit in Portland. The large parking lot at his office…doesn’t look like the Nike parking lot.
@ee I checked and this is not true. The closest jobs were roughly 20% lower in total comp
@e8
'Nike is the best paying company in the Portland Metro area.'
The area is a bit of a train wreck.
How is Intel doing by the way?
@OP
'and remember there's always another job out there'
sadly, this is not the 90s
@e8 I'm a software engineer and I'll say, the Portland market isn't great but there are definitely other software engineering positions in the Portland metro area which pay the same as or better than Nike. Nike isn't unique in it's compensation levels at all
@bw Nike is the best paying company in the Portland Metro area. The people crying and complaining about workload, give me a break. You are so freaking pampered. Handedly I don’t think most of you could cut it out in the real world. Count your blessings while you count your paychecks.
If it’s critical they will staff it. What happens if one of you quits? Then what? You don’t need to be in misery to make up for leadership failures. You simply say no.
@c1 Some groups I’ve seen don’t have the headcount (or have just gone through reorgs/layoffs) and saying no isn’t an option because critical work doesn’t get done. Like an ideal 9-5, some days it’s just not possible, similar to the comment below of having work overload. Happens everywhere.
@ae you need to learn how to say no. you get more work because you accept more work.
Happy to report when I was at Nike I worked about 4 hours/day, great times. But the truth is I was just faster than my coworkers
@bc new gig not greener on other side?
I am ex-Nike. You people need to realize how freaking lucky you are. Free labor? Athletes mindset dude, if you don’t want to out in the hours, someone else will. Next man up. I would be thrilled to come back home to the swoosh, and will happily take your workload.
@ac Couldn’t agree more. Love the idea of being able to get all the work done in an 8-hour day, but that’s just not feasible for many teams who are understaffed or departments where some people have 2-3x the workload as others in the same group.
yes you should work work 8-5 with the exceptional crunch time; anything more and you're a chump
I agree, but sometimes it’s easier said than done. While the premise of there’s always another job out there is also true, the job market isn’t as good right now. I know people who are still searching. I think everyone’s workload looks different around the company and many times the halo effect happens on smaller teams who are just trying their best to actually stay afloat all pulling together and hoping help will come due to understaffing. I’m sure most people would love to get their work done in the hours of 9-5PM but based on where we’re at as a company and the push from leadership many orgs are feeling the pressure and are being tasked with doing more than what they’d typically do. I’m just coming from a place of having empathy because I see it in our current environment across the multitude of partners I work with.
is there always another job out there, though?
tech is brutal, interview code challenges are brutal
ageism is real
thoughts on this?