Fun and Flexible - Part Time Sales Nordstrom Employee Review

5.0
Feb 27, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

-Commision based -works around college schedule -discount -the majority of my co-workers are wonderuful and supportive -feels like a family -the majority of the employees are educated and sophisticated

Cons

-Commisison based -There are certain departments that will always make more money than others so that can really be a pain, for example in clothes TBD, BP, and POV will always make more than Womens Active and Petites and Encore. -Managers can be WONDERFUL and others can be just awful. My manager is a wondeful manager, i just love her but I have heard stories and have witnessed other managers (not many but a few) stealing sales from associates, being overly critical, just sitting in the back room all day doing nothing, and demanding associates in college to skip class to work and not taking no for an answer (that in my opinon is unforgivable)

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5.0
Jun 18, 2026
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Pros

Great Pay, awesome people, teammates.

Cons

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2.0
Jul 11, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Good commission (for my department it was 10%), great coworkers—made amazing friends from my time here!! Opportunity for lots of commission $ during busy times.

Cons

Management is awful.. Plays favorites to an INSANE degree. For whatever reason I got onto the bad side of my department manager. Literally would call me into the office (taking away time on the floor to sell) to YELL at me until I cried for things that my coworkers got away with and didn’t even get so much as a talking to. Btw, what got me this treatment? Would be something pretty awful right? Coming in 5 min late. Big whoop. Also, management would promote people who quite literally had to take leaves of absence after having sexual harassment claims made against them… but then not only were they allowed to come back BUT also become floor managers. And what happened when he made it to that position? Literally got a sexual harassment claim again. I wonder how that could have been mitigated? The favoritism is so severe and unprofessional that when I was asking to get my job back for the holiday season I was told that there was nothing in the schedule available for me when in fact they were short staffed. And my coworker? The manager literally responded with “yes PLEASE 😍” yes. With the emoji. Grown man btw! Also, during that period the store was very shortstaffed with people quitting left and right. So, a lie.

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