Very stable, very boring - Systems Engineer Nordstrom Employee Review

3.0
Apr 22, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

The company culture is very polite and stable. You will never feel like you are stressed or pressured to complete projects or work. Management is quite hands off. Office politics are muted and suppressed, so there is not a lot of backbiting and infighting. Many people have been here >10 years.

Cons

You will never feel challenged and you will never feel that management has your back. Teams are very siloed and you must play process and use the good old boy networks to get anything done. Knowledge is hoarded and very rarely shared, and while a "startup environment" is talked about by management, nothing is ever done. The long tenure of many employees leads to stagnant knowledge that is hoarded by one person.

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Cons

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Pros

Decent base pay, somewhat autonomous, great tip potential.

Cons

The company has changed for the worse since COVID. When I came back the mood of the entire store had shifted. Gone were the days of comradery, customer focus, and taking pride in a job well done. In its place there is a new culture of cutthroat sales, a severe decline in customer focus, and worst of all a new focus on profit over customer satisfaction. When I was told that the amount the store charged for a shoe shine was not enough to do the best job I could for a customer I knew things had gone downhill for the company. Not to mention I watch a manager prey on a mentally disabled person in order to secure a sale, when the person could not understand what was being offered. Sad that such a once great company is now just another greed ridden corporation.

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