Neiman Marcus Reviews in Dallas-Fort Worth, TX Area

Pros

fun, fashion, discounts, growth, learning and development

Cons

low salary, only buyers being able to travel

Advice to Senior Management

Offer more recognition to employees, give planners, assistant buyers opportunitities to travel and attend market

Pros

At one time, this was a fun place to work and the people were very professional for the most part and the work environment was decent.

Cons

When the outsourcing initiative started, there were a lot of bumps early on. The beginning was especially unpleasant.

Advice to Senior Management

For the most part, the level of management was professional and well groomed with a few exceptions. My only advise to management would be to consider in-sourcing and doing away with the sell out outsourcing which from what I understand is not going too well.

Pros

The discount was pretty good. 30/30 and 50/30 made the prices reasonable. Co-workers were nice. Flexible work hours in corporate.

Cons

Terrible benefits and compensation. Lack of leadership. Tenure was valued more than skill. Lack of technology. None of their systems were linked.

Advice to Senior Management

Have a unified vision. The more the departments work together the more successful the company can be as a whole.

Pros

The positive side to working for Neiman Marcus was the exposure to the fashion world. Salvage and sample sales are the best as you get designer name brands for very low prices.

Cons

No work life balance. Very little recognition for extra effort. Atmosphere was extremely stuck up and there was very little room for growth and development. Buyers took long lunch breaks and upper management did not have any respect for lower level coordinators or assistant buyers.

Advice to Senior Management

Learn to respect the lower people doing majority of the work to keep the office together. Treat everyone with respect no matter what their title or position is. Teach the buyers how to manage their offices and hire people who will be team players.

Pros

I was able to work from home, which sounds good, but you're so easily overlooked and almost don't exist unless a customer says you were disrespectful or mean to them.

Cons

Worst management, they do not care about you as a person or as an employee, they go weeks without ever speaking to you unless you somehow make a mistake then you'll definitely hear about that immediatey, customer treat you like complete dirt and yell and cuss and say terrible things, and scheduling gives you the absolute worst hours, even if you're in school.

Advice to Senior Management

You should try caring about your employees as much as your customers, and treating them with respect.

Pros

Discount, beautiful clothes, middle level people are great, 2pm Fridays from Memorial Day to Labor Day, annual reviews (but often raises are no more than 2%)

Cons

Taken for granted, employees given pay cuts when CFO and CEO are given large raises, HR has very little control over erratic behavior in upper management

Advice to Senior Management

Don't take your employees for granted, they typically work very hard to make your company great and there is very little to no recognition given

Pros

Salary
Fun Work Environment
Samples of Products
Incentives
Clean Workspace
Great Products to Sell

Cons

Hard to get those special days off.
Strict dress code.
Repetitive.

Advice to Senior Management

It would be nice if the management could come to the center and anonymously and thank good employees with a small gift or certificate of sorts. Acknowledgment.

Pros

Opportunities to learn a lot.

Cons

Management treats employees like second class. Hard work is not rewarded, only back stabbing is. Everyone is only interested in protecting their own job. Management doesn't do anything to try to boost others career paths because they see that is a threat to their own job. Benefits are terrible. Company will screw you out of money every chance they get.

Advice to Senior Management

Get a back bone and treat people fairly.

Pros

discounts are great but paying for them is not equal to how customers can pay.. cash only or neiman cc... now how STUPID is that

Cons

no promotion opportunitites, very "pigeon" hole for employees... Like other have said a cass system

Advice to Senior Management

come do our jobs... You can't.

Pros

Great discounts and I had a great boss I directly reported to

Cons

no work life balance, last minute pressure and even when you met the requirement it was still not good enough. No understanding, training or incentives for growth, set you to fail, company lacks family bond environment.

Advice to Senior Management

Management should work with worker that are hardworking and value them, who are dedicated to company, instead of making unrealistic demands without proper management planning and system support.