Nordstrom reviews

3.5

56% would recommend to a friend

(25,107 total reviews)

Erik B. Nordstrom and Peter E. Nordstrom

70% approve of CEO

47% positive business outlook

Nordstrom has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 25,107 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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5.0
Dec 15, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great work environment Challenging work (speaking from personal experience) Great team ethics Great relationship between employees and management Organisational barriers are minimal

Cons

Work hours could be sometimes quite bothersome (specific to my case since i was in support and maintenance) Thats the only downside i could think of after working for almost two years with Nordstrom.

2.0
Dec 14, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

-Nice people to work with -Discount- could be more (especially when salespeople are the ones helping customers) -Good on resume -Customers are fun to help

Cons

-Don't care about you as a person, if you wanted to transfer to another store, even after working for the company for 5+ years would rather hire someone new. All based on Sales Per Hour. HR does not value a reliable, committed employee. -Being promoted rather quickly into management, was demoted out just as quickly -Long, strange hours -People who don't deserve the best hours seem to get them, based on favoritism -Sucking up seems to be the best way to get promoted -CAN NOT pay bills on this job, have to live with parents, only a few people PER STORE can make a decent living. -Commission rate needs to be changed -Management pay is by far the only pay to live on, but then you have to work a million hours to get the job done -Upper management and/or Buyers make decisions that Salespeople have to communicate to customers. They should try and think about that before they make dumb decisions.

3.0
Dec 9, 2010

Great people place to work

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great people place to work - if you like talking and politics. Too much emphasis on "networking" to get the job done.

Cons

Lack of resources and technology to complete any particular project. Without a strong "networking" core at Nordstrom, you have to fight tooth and nail to gain approval for anything. Poor communications from exec mgmt on direction of company. Very poor integration of backend systems.

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