Pros
*This review is about Chicago HQ only* Great professional experience if you joined back in the days when there was room for growth. Opportunity to meet a lot of wonderful people. They have recently finally acknowledged their problems and stopped hiring en masse, created the inside sales role, and started caring about their clients again. But unfortunately, for many valuable employees, it is too little too late. If you are tenured and have the political support of senior management, you're in a good spot as long as the comp plan doesn't change again.
Cons
Constantly navigating the political waters here is tiring and exhausting and will burn you out of sales quickly, leaving you feeling inadequate, undervalued, uninspired. There is little to no trust in management because while most of them are very nice people they are forced to talk out of both sides of their mouth, spread thin and have no choice but to be dishonest and continue to try and force unrealistic results out of you. In the end, you feel unsupported. The revolving door of valuable and hardworking women is a unhealthy and a vicious cycle. It creates an incredibly sad and depressing environment. The lack of transparency about the business is concerning. Nordstrom's recently released earnings report was completely swept under the rug and not acknowledged.
