Expecting an offer from Nordstrom
Hey everyone, I’m expecting a Senior Engineer II role at Nordstrom soon. But, I have a few questions though. 1. How strict is Nordstrom’s policy on RTO ? 2. What base pay can I expect or negotiate to ? YOE: 11yrs Previous TC: 170k Location: Seattle Future TC: Yet to get it from the recruiter #nordstrom #engineering #software
What is your current and future TC? YoE? Work location?
YOE: 11yrs Previous TC: 170k Location: Seattle Future TC: Yet to get it from the recruiter
Dont count on bonus as we haven’t received bonuses in last 2 years. Benefits in general suck. Try to negotiate on base. Its a sinking ship at the moment.
Mandatory RTO is fairly new. We’re supposed to be in office 3 days a week (on a fixed set of days, varying by team). The only exceptions to this rule are people who live more than than an hour’s drive away from an office. Despite that, a lot of people are simply ignoring the rule. Rumor has it that a crack-down is in the works. They recently added “no tailgating” signs above the main floor card readers in building 865. This is a good security stance and reminder, but there is speculation they are also doing it so they can use card swipes to more accurately track attendance.
Technically yes, they can track. But more importantly if you don't show up, the direct impact is your manager and your teammates. They won't agree with that unless the whole team agrees to cheat the company which is not possible. RTO is 3 days/week mandatory, period.
The thing is, that’s actually happening. Part of why that’s happening and no one is complaining is because, in many cases, RTO is dumb. Many teams (perhaps most) have remote members, so all meetings in the office have to take place over Teams anyway. Equipment is worse than what we have at home, and it’s all half-height cubicles with high contention for meeting rooms, so there’s plenty of noise and distractions you have to drown out. Most of my team doesn’t show up most of the time. Am I going to snitch, despite the fact I come in all the time? No. Because we’re not cheating the company. The same work is getting done regardless, and the office is not the magical collaboration space management seems to believe it is.
I think you can push the base salary up to ~$250k for senior 2. I am a senior 1 (max range is $200-210k).
$170k is a good offer for Sr 2
That’s way low for Seattle i suppose, considering I make the same at my current company while being remote
170-180 base is standard for senior 2
That's the lower range for senior 2. My base is 185k (higher range) as a senior 1. My friend pushed and got a 200k (top range) base offer as a senior 1 a few months back. Be confident to push for more as no harm doing so.
mjspi, do you know how much was the initial offer for your friend ?
Upper limit for base pay for Sr 2 might be mentioned in the job description profile on LI. Most of the time it is mentioned, as employers want to keep the base pay range transparent. Afaik it's capped at $236 for Sr 2. Not sure how close you could get to. Personally speaking, forget about including bonus in your TC. Treat your base as your TC and then make the decision. Don't get sold out by the recruiter wrt bonus, benefits and other things - they might lie a lot.
I have seen on levels.fyi that people have reported about getting 190-200 as a Sr 1 (which has a cap at ~201k). If you consider yourself really good as a Sr 2 (who will act as a lead to solve complex problems by leading multi-team projects), push to get bonus to >= 220-225K.
Current Nordstrom employees in Tech. Did you guys get any confirmation about bonus this year ?
We got a bonus at 143% of target for H1.
Nordstrom sucks lol
My employment status sucks even more 😢
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