Nordstrom reviews

The software development department of Nordstrom has been, and continues to be, an absolute disaster. Management is completely aloof to how to run anything, and it has allowed a variety of horrible managers to get into positions of power and destroy things for its employees, causing several on the team I was on to outright quit. The slogan of Nordstrom, Nice is at most a farce, as the reality is that most people there are incredibly vain and skin deep. They're the kind of preppy people everyone hated in high school - nice to your face but then go behind your back and say all sorts of nasty things about you. They try to say they are all about diversity, but they haven't a clue on how to even handle diversity - the number of times I've heard other employees make sexist, racist, homophobic, and transphobic statements is insane, and turning to HR for help made it apparent that they would be shielded from criticism. In fact, turning to HR actually made matters worse, because the people doing these nasty things were only emboldened in their animosity to anyone who stood up to their problematic opinions and behaviors - the managers especially. Their policy of Use Good Judgment is a catch-all phrase that means nothing more than whatever your manager thinks it means, and is only ever used to tear people down for doing something someone above didn't like. The same can be said about their policy of empathy - it really only goes one way, to the people running the show. But if that wasn't the worse, on top of it you have developers coming from three month coding schools, like CodeFellows, that have absolutely no knowledge of coding. The sheer incompetence that I ran into was mystifying, and made you wonder how people had even gotten a job in software to begin with. Additionally the pay is subpar for the industry, by a good 20k/yr. The overall company culture is absolutely demoralizing and defunct, and it's one of the worst places I have worked in over ten years of being in software.