What I don’t see is Nike ever reaching the heights of its old glory again. I actually used to enjoy working here. Now it just feels like any other random job that could vanish at any moment, and I wouldn't even care. You can’t be invested when leadership isn’t, and you can’t feel like part of a team when there’s no team left. We’ve become bland, and cutting people seems to be the only strategy they have to stay afloat.
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@ek Yeah, why do you think this is the age of enshittification?
No reason to hate Indians. They work hard and run the biggest companies in the world! And I do believe it is time for EH to go!
Why the hate against Indians? Subpar or poorly skilled people are hired and enabled by managers, directors and snr directors who have no clue about how technology works and integrates, and a lot of whom are white. Nike tech has a bunch of MBAs or business SMEs at best who have idea about tech and worst, are making technology decisions that impact the whole enterprise in some instances. Think Prod creation apps for example. That's why there's over reliance on incompetent developers and engg managers.. Indian or otherwise. The whole thing is rotten. Even now we have multiple VPs across BI, data etc. Yet try getting a single data point that reflects downstream biz processes. Each domain is a silo and turf war of its own.
If you want to fix anything fix the culture. That's the hard unsexy part when hiring over paid VPs is much easier.
EH should be replaced with an Indian. Our stock needs some spice!
Well the amount of Indian do nothings has eclipsed any good engineers and SLTs love of promoting the h1bs is doing nothing to help morale and motivation.
@am agree a lot of the supply chain (largely DSM) promotions went to incompetent people who could barely do their job at their prior lower level and are completely clueless in meetings, knowledge, etc.. They just talk a big talk and look good on paper.
They let me and my team go, it takes years and a non-common sense of business and team-work to rebuild the knowledge and skills we had. My global leaders are good at diplomacy, but I doubt they can replicate the good part of our work without having people like us in the team.
There. I said it.
The beatings will continue until morale improves
and in tech the layoffs keep coming. ehq/emea tech is cooked, and it's all coming to global. it really is so, so bad. i'm in supply chain and i just cannot believe how incompetent everyone is. the promotion pilot was a total nepotism-fueled joke. i really feel that nike tech is doomed. so many know-nothing indian engineers that like to look good on paper but couldn't code their way out of a wet paper bag even with cursor
it is the hunger games