I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Nordstrom (New York, NY) in Apr 2015
Interview
You first go in for an in person interview. Once you pass that they put you in trial. We had to go on trial for a month and sell 10k in two weeks. That means, you are required to bring in clients without training and sell 10k . The purpose of it is to see your grit and desire to want to sell and how scrappy you can get.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They ask questions to get a sense if you can handle the workload. I cannot remember specifics
It was a speed hiring event where they brought a group of candidates into a room and each person met with a department manager for about 10 minutes. It sounds messy but it seemed pretty effective.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They placed a garment in front of me and asked me to sell it to them as if they were a customer.
It was not a lengthy interview process. Most of the interview questions were related to any prior retail & customer service experience. There were a few scenario based questions regarding customer engagement and customer service, etc.
There was none. The links to schedule the interview never worked. I emailed and no one ever responded even though I constantly got emails reminding me to schedule an interview - the links never worked and there was no one to contact. Not sure how anyone was hired.
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Stylist applicants have rated the interview process at Nordstrom with 2.5 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 81% positive. To compare, the company-average is 73.2% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
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