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3.9

79% would recommend to a friend

(7,109 total reviews)
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69% positive business outlook

adidas has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 7,109 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The adidas employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Retail & Wholesale industry (3.5 stars).

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1.0
Jun 28, 2018

Where careers go to die.

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Pros

50% off merchandise Half-day Fridays You can coast as long as you want

Cons

Where careers go to die. This place is a joke. The only currency is ego. You’re an adult, excited for an amazing career with a hot brand and on your first day you find out that instead of going to work you’ve entered high-school all over again. But instead of having fun with your friends and learning new things, you discover that your friends (colleagues) take credit for your work, your teachers (leadership) are threatened by your ideas, and the counselors (HR) are only motivated by silencing your concerns. Experience and expertise aren’t valued. Disingenuous ass-kissing is. If you value your self-worth, have pride in your work ethic, are curious and want to further your career, stay away. This goes all the way to the top. The CMO embodies the most negative aspects. It trickles down from there. This brand will sink and those who were warned will shrug, lay the people off who executed leadership’s poor ideas, and then they’ll cash their bonus checks. High-functioning people need not apply. Highly insecure people should.

2.0
Nov 10, 2018

Not what it seems

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Pros

location of campus work life balance is very good good product discounts

Cons

A big problem with the portland hq (can't say about the herzog hq), is that its run by a group of insiders, dubbed the adidas mafia by the general populace here. The insiders generally have been with adidas for a few years, and are almost exclusively white (bonus points for being british, australian, or NZ). If you are part of the mafia, or are cozied up with key members of the mafia, then the sun will shine on your career, and you will likely move up the ranks with relatively impunity. I've seen many better deserving team members, especially african americans, asians, etc that have been let go, punt aside, or ignored in favor of those the mafia prefers to socialize with, regardless of their qualifications and skills. An example of this would be people chosen to head up merchandising that have no real merchandising experience. in recent days, some have chosen to speak out via a letter to the head of office. my guess is that there will be some lipstick put on this pig, speeches made about how much they care, a couple of people will be promoted, and the mafia will continue on its merry way. It will be interesting to see how a letter to the lead who is part of the mafia and has dated members of the mafia will lead to any real change, there are some very nice people here, but especially among the higher ranks, i've learnt there is a lot of smile at your face, stab you in the back types here looking to preserve their spot at this high school we call adidas hq.

2.0
Jun 24, 2019
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Pros

Nothing to challenge you.

Cons

A terrible place for capable competent women. Basically failing women on all fronts and roles. The company's culture and what senior managers and executives promote has minimum to do with breaking the extreme boys club culture, respect and value women more than cheer leaders needed to be around men to praise them or to make the team look diverse.

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