Terrible experience - Software Engineer adidas Employee Review

Really poor culture and collaboration spirit, while there are some nice colleagues, rudeness and arrogance seem to prevail in some departments and people (and it is surprisingly true for some vendors as well, I reckon as they seem to fit in the culture, they thrive). Expect to be criticized in public and praised in private (I meant it) and join endless sapping energy meetings along the days, since it is a meeting driven company. These meetings usually have a strange dynamic, where sometimes out of more than 20~30 participants, no more than around 5 open their mouth. IT department and facility are also worth mentioning in this sense. Should you ever work there, hope you never need them or you'd better solve the problems yourself. There are few competent managers and directors who truly try to improve things there, but many are completely unprepared, sometimes biased by relationships and views and most of the time it seems that things are shouting prioritized. Not to mention that some managers have a very old fashioned style of management. Dont be surprised with people making fan of accents, cultural jokes, etc, specially if they come from the HQ. Despite the beautiful values and vision (3Cs, through sport we have the power to change lives, etc), don't expect to find them in your daily basis and they are in general no more than words. From systems perspective, if you are told there are few huge legacy monoliths and they are already being decomposed or replaced by an updated stack, don't buy that. A last point worth mentioning is that Adidas is a very bureaucratic traditional German company (although along the recruitment process you are told the contrary). Therefore if you enjoy dynamic, fast paced places with a certain level of autonomy, it might not be your cup of tea. If you are relocating from abroad, watch out and think well since you will be locked in for 1.5 years. P.s. this review is based on the department I worked for, but talking to colleagues the complaints are pretty much the same, apart from one or two departments (maybe you are lucky and can fall in one these two)