Sales applicants have rated the interview process at Nordstrom with 2.2 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 73% positive. To compare, the company-average is 73.1% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Sales roles take an average of 11 days to get hired, when considering 71 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Nordstrom overall takes an average of 14 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Nordstrom as a Sales according to 71 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 31%
Phone interview: 23%
Background check: 11%
Presentation: 7%
Drug test: 6%
Personality test: 6%
Skills test: 5%
Group panel interview: 5%
IQ intelligence test: 3%
Other: 2%
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I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Nordstrom in Mar 2020
Interview
slow and tedious. Don't get back to in time and usually want you to do at least three interviews before hire. Which is excessive because it is after all, only retail and not some corporate position.
I applied through other source. I interviewed at Nordstrom in Jun 2026
Interview
to many questions not enough details and one sided. I would not recommend this store unless they change their human resource- human resource is very disconnected, and you can tell that they make more and are on a totally different platform than the rest of the workers.
Very fundamental, as every retail interview that you go into. Just be yourself and describe why you would be a good fit. So just be confident in yourself and go for it.
I applied online. I interviewed at Nordstrom (Houston, TX) in Mar 2025
Interview
The interviewer was very unprepared, she didn’t know which position I had applied for, and initially brought the wrong form which would be fine on its own.
For context, I recently broke my arm in a motor vehicle accident and I have to wear a brace and at one point the interviewer stated “We’ll be working in the dress department, these dresses are 20-25 pounds and we have to carry them around a lot. Is this something you’d be able to do?” And then very blatantly glanced to my arm brace as if prompting me to explain my injury. This is a temporary injury that is healing but regardless I am perfectly capable of carrying 25 pounds and heavier with my other arm. The details of my injury are not any business of the interviewer and should not effect whether or not I’m hired for a position and I felt as though she’d already made her decision based on my injury.
After this when doing a sales roleplay she prompted me with one question and then had me play out a roleplay of a sale as BOTH the customer and the sales person when a role play requires the interviewer to play the role of the customer to prompt the person being interviewed.
I felt as though this interview was purposefully botched by the interviewer due to my visible arm injury and I found the experience to be incredibly unprofessional and discriminatory. I have had no issue working sales at my current job. I did not receive an offer because I immediately emailed and asked to be removed from consideration. If this is how an interviewee with a temporary injury is treated I can’t imagine how it must be for a permanently disabled interviewee.