Happy I left. - Senior Manager adidas Employee Review

2.0
19 Apr 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

-401k is awesome. -50% off shoes -"Work from anywhere" day during the week (If you are lucky tho) -When you leave, your resume will look great with "Adidas" on it.

Cons

I faced an enormous amount of issues caused by poor decision making, poor leadership and ego driven decisions. The highest grossing category at Adidas is lifestyle, ORIGINALS and ACTION SPORTS. Originals/Action Sports leadership is laughable: No leader will be providing a clear and assertive decision on "what to do next" fearing the other leaders will criticize. Nobody has enough balls to own a mistake. if you are a manager or a senior manager be ready to stay in your lane waiting for a promotion, because most likely will never happen. Directors keep their seat and their bonus and as someone pointed out, its always the same crew of people on top. HR has always tried to silence issues and never ever solved a single issue I've known. I once thought Adidas was different than Nike, but its not. If you really pay close attention to all the hot product coming out none is from Adidas, and that's only because the decision making is so bad, nothing makes an impact.

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