Nordstrom Total Compensation Ranges (My TC: 325k)
People seem to not believe me when I share my Nordstrom TC. Yes, Nordstrom does have decent pay. We have done a lot to modernize our stack (Kubernetes, Kafka, Lambdas, AWS+GCP hybrid). Being in Seattle, it's the only way Nordstrom can stay somewhat competitive in hiring talent. Here are the current TC ranges. Format is Level / Low to High Salary / Annual Bonus / Annual Stock. 1 / 90k - 126k / 10% Bonus 2 / 104k - 150k / 20% Bonus Sr 1 / 120k - 180k / 25% Bonus Sr 2 / 142k - 213k / 30% Bonus Principal / 169k - 253k / 30% Bonus / 15% Stock Sr Principal / 300k+ / 30% Bonus / 30% Stock Levels and ranges are the same between software engineers and program managers. Also, new hires tend to be brought in at the high end of the range (or outside the range). People with zero YOE, no college degree coming out of a coding bootcamp are automatically offered 105k+10% bonus. Hopefully, this encourages everyone to not discount Nordstrom as a potential employer.
Perks at Nordstrom ?
1) 33% discount on all products including Bose, Sonos, Google Home/Nest, Chanel, Le Creuset. Changes to 40% discount in December. 2) Excellent WLB. Work from home. 3) Unlimited Sick Leave. 4) We don’t ask anyone to sign a non-compete or non-solicit agreement.
Cool thanks. What about vacation days per level ? 401k match?
what’s LOE
Don’t want to reveal who I am. At the same time, Nordstrom has a lot of young people. We have people at the Principal Engineer level with less than 10 YOE.
?? i take it LOE is a typo for YOE
So what kind of work do you do? Can you go into more detail about what other teams do
Also interested to hear more about this
We have a lot of programs that you would expect from a modern eCommerce platform. That includes building a recommendations engine, machine learning platform and event sourcing pipeline for business analytics, a massive ground-up project to build an order management system, infrastructure to support all the microservices. Nordstrom has site reliability engineering, engineering standards, and tech design reviews as well. Website is mostly React. Mobile applications are native iOS/Android. Services are Node.js, Golang, or Java.
Good to know. Do you mind referring me for new grad roles?
Nordstrom is good about getting you an interview by applying online. We don’t get a massive number of applicants like a FAANG company. https://careers.nordstrom.com/#/home/
lol rekt
That was years ago and I like to believe that people learn from their mistakes. So far, the CTO has done a great job aligning Nordstrom Technology in the right direction. I’m pretty happy with how he is guiding the company.
Lol. He’s building teradata v3 at Nordstrom as we speak. Expedia->Tesco->Nordstrom.
How many engineers does Nordstrom have in total?
Nordstrom Technology organization has about 2,600 employees. I would say at least half of those people are engineers so about 1,300 engineers?
Approx 1800 are Engineers (including Prinicpal/Sr Principal)
Clothing discount? Yay!
You clearly don’t shop Nordstrom. We carry a lot of the top electronics techies love: Sonos, Bose, Devialet, Google Home, Nest, etc. and yes, the discount applies to all of those as well.
You will appreciate it during holiday season, I bought almost all my gifts from Nordstrom for any occasions: anniversary, birthday, baby shower, etc.
Any insights on pay ranges for PMs?
The PM pay ranges are exactly the same as engineer pay ranges.
Any offices outside of Seattle?
Bay Area and Denver as well.
Whereabouts in the Bay Area?
would be a good post for ecommerce/ retail channel
Done.