Clever transfer of wealth from contractors to permanent employees - Senior Software Engineer NIKE Employee Review

2.0
4 Jul 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Lots of good managers, good career opportunities if you are aggressive enough in owning your career, chance to work with cutting edge technologies alongside some of the smartest engineers, decent benefits, access to many facilities on campus.

Cons

Nike recently announced that employees will receive paid days off for 5 days in July and 5 days in August. On the surface, this sounds like the company really cares about employee well-being by offering essentially additional PTO. That is until you realize that half of those employed within corporate are contractors that are not eligible for this "benefit" and are forced to take an unpaid day off, so they are basically getting a 20% reduction in pay for the summer (with no option to make up those hours even if they wanted to). The company has basically found a clever way to transfer 8 hours of pay to permanent employees by taking away those 8 hours of pay from their contractor counterparts.

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5.0
11 Jun 2026
Recommend
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Pros

This started as a summer job during COVID and extended for the next couple of years. I loved working here and in my experience had a good managers. I personally like Nike so the discount was a big perk!

Cons

The main con is pay. I was paid near minimum wage with little increase YOY. If you want to pursue corporate there are rotations that become available at the retail level, but very competitive.

2.0
12 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Benefits are good. Pay is okay. Usually get a bonus every year.

Cons

Management is horrible. The culture inside is awful. The workers aren't great, either. They don't pay for holidays anymore, also.

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