Nordstrom reviews

3.6

56% would recommend to a friend

(25,110 total reviews)

Erik B. Nordstrom and Peter E. Nordstrom

70% approve of CEO

47% positive business outlook

Nordstrom has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 25,110 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Nordstrom employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Retail & Wholesale industry (3.4 stars).

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25K reviews
4.0
Mar 27, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

encourage upward mobility decent pay for the industry

Cons

outdated and old fashioned - needs to be more accommodating with work from home. For a company that has so many female employees, the lack of family friendly astomosphere and work life balance for women to juggle career and family is extremely disappointing. I often spend many preciuos weeknights working for making up for time lost during my commute in during the week. I wish they would let WFH policies be discetionary with your manager and your individual circumstances.

1.0
Jul 10, 2024

Law breaking company

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

> Sometimes some of the people you work with are alright > The benefits are decent

Cons

> Hostile work environment > Emotionally immature and untrained management > Unappreciative of workers > Underpaid > Difficulties getting promotions > If management does not like you, they find a reason to fire you (management did this to me after reporting coworker for hostile work environment. Instead of dealing with it, they viewed me as the problem and terminated me.) Additionally, I want to add what they did to someone I worked with in 2018. A woman one of the managers did not like had their security team detain her, handcuff her, and interrogate her for hours in an attempt to confess to stealing $10k worth of merchandise. They claimed they had proof and would not share it with her. Nordstrom had her escorted off the premises by a police officer who then gave her an attorney's card and told her, "this happens all the time. After a big sale they will use the loss of money to pin it on a worker they do not like." After a few weeks she received a letter in the mail stating that they actually were not going to pursue a court case even though they had said they were going to originally. But they said her position was still terminated. Nordstrom is one of the most crooked companies you will ever work for, and I suggest avoiding at all cost. > Expected to have a fully open schedule and eat, breathe, live as if work is your entire life (no real work/life balance)

1.0
Jul 27, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- can pick schedule during interview -20% discount That’s it.

Cons

Let’s see during the interview process it was never disclosed that a laptop was not provided and that you have to be hardwired in. I tried negotiating to $20 hourly and was offered $18.50. Still have not made the incentive. You will not make the $1000 bonus until tier 2. Half of my training class quit the first few days. After graduation from 8 week training you will see people slowly disappear. The turnover rate is extremely high. If you walk away for 10 minutes except to see 10 messages in your Microsoft teams about where you are or what you are doing. I have had computer issues since the day I have started and even have had a new computer sent to me. You are just a number talking calls management does not care about you. There are so many other positions that are better out there.

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