adidas reviews

3.9

79% would recommend to a friend

(7,109 total reviews)
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89% approve of CEO

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 Ventas al mayoreo y al menudeo industry (3.5 stars).

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7K reviews
3.0
Oct 16, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Stable (well, my team won't get re-orged and is very safe), great medical benefits, nice work from home policy next to tech of course, generally nice people

Cons

Horrible leadership decision making. They don't understand the current marketplace opportunity, most people work in Germany and truly don't have the best barometer of what works in North America. Brand doesn't like to take risks, so will never grow. Extremely disconnected over comms, media content, brand, product, sales, and merchandising. Don't seem to care about missing opportunities or communicating across teams. People have too much work because our systems are from the early 2000s and it eats away at workload efficiency. This leads to complacency once you achieve what title you want here, and half will continue helping and half will just shutdown and take their paycheck with "opportunistic" effort given when it's needed. They don't pay people enough. Anyone who's younger than 30 will probably be very frustrated with the "old" way of doing things that you finally realize is what's holding everyone back. Whole brand needs to grow a pair and act boldly.

1.0
Aug 14, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Medical Benefits, Exposure, Good Incentives

Cons

I failed to understand the priorities of the organisation as when I joined initially it focused on employee grooming and quality. A quarter later it turned out to be completely opposite of that. However, I did understand the change of management but surprised to see so much of nepotism in the organisation. It really doesn’t matter how skilled you are, if the management likes you. Boom! You are up there. I have literally seen Area Managers abusing on zoom calls and using filthy words. I felt like I am working at a mismanaged group of people who just want to micromanage their subordinates. I have not seen any international organisation like that! Where it’s completely fine to be abusive to the subordinates. It’s a nice company to work with if you just want to pay off your bills and pass your day!

2.0
Dec 3, 2019

Only for the most resilient

Recommend
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Pros

Nice brand and physical products, good corporate experience to have, some nice colleagues, good experience for a little while

Cons

- Intense pressure and little recognition of success from senior management - expectation to produce vast quantities of work with poorly executed notice (emails at 11pm or 5am expecting new work to be delivered the following morning) - very political atmosphere with lack of autonomy - lack of product strategy ownership - career development opportunities are not as expected or promised - no training budget

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