It's a satisfactory workplace, you can grow if you are the motivated type and can handle a constant popularity contest. - Sales Manager Nordstrom Employee Review

3.0
Jan 19, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

Fast growth All employees are really nice Great benefits Commission style compensation Schedule flexibility Goal oriented Flexibility to run your own business Cross sell from department to department

Cons

Upper mgmt. is popularity contest, achieving and surpassing goals has no impact only how much you kiss a$# The distinguished employees are one's with most input, not necessarily with the best performance Slow seasons, which fluctuate your pay Returns which throw you in the negative range, most you have no control over and you have to work all day just to break even No praise for a job well done, all you hear are the negative and demeaning feedback Working over-time and taking on more responsibilities for others during event/sales goes unnoticed Upper management will tell/do whatever is in their best interest and not for whats interest for all (entire store)

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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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