The phone interview for this position was easy. Basic questions and no feedback, just question after question and then they tell you they would like to set up an in-person interview. The in-person interview consisted of a sit-down where some of the phone interview questions were repeated and other situational questions were asked. Then either the same person you were speaking with or a manager of a department will take you out onto the sales floor, give you a scenario and ask you to sell them something. I have experience working for a high-end women's boutique so when I was asked to sell her denim, I was more than comfortable and familiar with the product and did as good of a job as could be done. I thought the interview went very well and was shocked when I did not receive an offer. What was even worse was how the HR representative handled telling me I was not chosen. She gave me a window of around 15 days to expect to hear back and I never did. I emailed her inquiring about when I would hear back and got an automated response that she was on vacation. A few days later I got a call from her saying that not only was I not chosen for the internship but she had decided last week, essentially letting me know that had I not contacted her they would not have even had the decency to send me a generic rejection email. After this interview, my opinion of Nordstrom truly has changed. Not to mention, this internship is not an internship at all. It is a glorified sales associate position where you are given no professional responsibility and spend your summer as a slave to their sales floor. The biggest slap in the face? They offered me a sales position instead. Needless to say, I declined.

I signed my application late January online. I applied for three locations and was only accepted at one, the other two locations denied my application. I did a phone screening and then was asked to come in for an in-person interview two weeks later at the beginning of February. I remembered walking up for the interview and being very nervous. However, although my interviewer was late, she was very friendly. (Everyone in HR is friendly) She even gave me a free card for their cafe to excuse her tardiness. She told me I applied too early and that they are in the beginning stages of the interviewing process but I will contacted by March. Two months later she told me that I did not get the position in her store but she wanted to know if I would be interested in their other location (this was a location that I applied for but was denied by through the initial online screening). Of course, I said yes because I really wanted to work for them and needed an internship to graduate. Their was a brief phone screening for the HR at the other location and the next phone call I had was them asking me to accept the position!