The career path is hard... - Assistant Buyer Neiman Marcus Employee Review

4.0
Dec 19, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The training program to become a buyer is well-thought out. You really get a 360 degree view of the company from asset protection to store planning and real estate to visual merchandising to advertising while learning how to be a buyer.

Cons

The career path bounces you back and forth between the corporate buying office and the stores. (2 years at each juncture.) The problem is each job requires such different skills that you could be successful at one and then suck at another. But the training doesn't necessarily help you prepare for those challenges. It's really about lucking out and having the right boss who will coach you along the challenges and help develop you.

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5.0
Mar 4, 2026
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Pros

* If you have an amazing team and management the day goes by fast. * Commission. * Easy to rely on foot traffic to meet goals. * If you ask for growth, they set thing ups that align with what you want, you just need to ask.

Cons

* If its slow, its SLOW. * There can be drama, it just depends on the department you're in.

3.0
May 20, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

good pay, good retired tech/fashion prop sales, hour long lunches

Cons

terrible work environment with whole bunch of eating disorder talk and projection at models (even from some management), management makes everyone stay until 4:30 even when all the minimum work requirement (and oftentimes more) is done, they will write you up for something extremely small then dismiss a big thing from another employee, terrible communication between managers therefore terrible communication to employees, employees get publicly ridiculed when they're just asking questions even amidst the terrible communication issues that are already there,

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