Technology Dept is a mess - Anonymous employee Nordstrom Employee Review

3.0
Feb 15, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Some of the best co-workers around, feels like family good benefits including merchandise discount Company itself has good core values

Cons

The Technology Dept. is in a constant state of change. I have had 7 different managers in a year and a half, most of whom had little to no experience in the area they now manage. They seem to shuffle people around with little regard to skill set. We went through a large round of layoffs that seemed aimed at reducing not needed middle management positions. (I agree we were heavy in that area), but only a few months later the shuffle of people has replaced, with different titles, all those same middle management jobs. I used to love my job and working here. It has completely changed and I no longer enjoy coming to work every day. In the past this was a place you could easily grow your career and advance, but that seems to no longer be the case.

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Cons

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Cons

Management is awful.. Plays favorites to an INSANE degree. For whatever reason I got onto the bad side of my department manager. Literally would call me into the office (taking away time on the floor to sell) to YELL at me until I cried for things that my coworkers got away with and didn’t even get so much as a talking to. Btw, what got me this treatment? Would be something pretty awful right? Coming in 5 min late. Big whoop. Also, management would promote people who quite literally had to take leaves of absence after having sexual harassment claims made against them… but then not only were they allowed to come back BUT also become floor managers. And what happened when he made it to that position? Literally got a sexual harassment claim again. I wonder how that could have been mitigated? The favoritism is so severe and unprofessional that when I was asking to get my job back for the holiday season I was told that there was nothing in the schedule available for me when in fact they were short staffed. And my coworker? The manager literally responded with “yes PLEASE 😍” yes. With the emoji. Grown man btw! Also, during that period the store was very shortstaffed with people quitting left and right. So, a lie.

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