adidas reviews

3.9

79% would recommend to a friend

(7,119 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 7,119 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 Einzel- & Großhandel industry (3.5 stars).

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7K reviews
1.0
Aug 18, 2018

Run and don’t look back.

Recommend
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Pros

There are some shining promises in the first 6 months, some good relocation packages...everything to get you in.

Cons

Poor management - people are more focused on their own career paths than adding any value to the direct reports. No support and just throwing people under the bus to save their own skin. The 90 days plans are superficial and the ratings are done based on some 5 minutes impression (typically through a hallway conversation). The company headquarter in Herzo has no air conditioning and it’s somewhere lost in a small village. Despite the German law our workloads are heavy and we work 12-14 hours/day. I personally asked for help and my performance rating went automatically down. The management approval rating is around 12%. If you are a professional, just go somewhere else.

3.0
Jul 4, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

nice cafeteria employee discounts on sportswear nice offices . .

Cons

IT is a mess. Nobody cares about anything. Don't go to adidas if you are highly skilled software developer and you want to gain experience. Here you will get just mediocre skills and all those enterprise bad-practices Communication across teams is awful, one of the worst I have experienced in my life. Teams are doing just their stuff, but other teams do not care about requests from other teams. They just ignore everything unless escalated. I have lost 1 year of my career being there, if you are IT find job in tech companies.

3.0
Apr 1, 2018

Can be a great place

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Interesting people from all over the world; fun workspace; exciting projects give chance to work on latest industry topics.

Cons

very bad internal organization, no processes, no visible structure, overuse of the word "agile"

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