No effort to keep good employees, and treated like we're not an important part of the company. - Customer Service Associate Nordstrom Employee Review

3.0
Sep 21, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Unlimited PTO, plus the other people on the team are AMAZING. I love my direct managers, and they do their best to make you feel appreciated. The new CEO seems like she wants to push the company in the right direction, and I'm excited to see where she's headed.

Cons

Constantly losing people due to low pay. Management micromanages everything, expects you to train people as soon as you're out of training, yet you get ZERO pay raises. No structure for moving up/getting raises. Stylists/sales people will treat you like dirt despite the fact that they couldn't make half their sales without you. Stylists get trips to Hawaii for doing well, yet the Service Team gets sent home early without pay if they do well. Management will give you more responsibilities in order to "prepare you for a promotion/new role", and then give the promotion to someone who didn't take on any extra responsibility to get it.

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Cons

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Pros

Good commission (for my department it was 10%), great coworkers—made amazing friends from my time here!! Opportunity for lots of commission $ during busy times.

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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