If you are an older woman and a little on the heavier side you can forget about advancement. Leadership preaches diversity and in recent meetings has even stated they are looking for more women in management. The problem is that is you are and older woman you likely do not qualify. I have worked at Boeing, Amazon, Microsoft, NBC and HP to name a few places (yes I have had a long career). I have my MBA, PMP and Six Sigma certification, all of which are current. Yet it stuns me to see new hires come in right out of college work for almost 2 years and be advanced over myself and some of the older PM groups, all of us older ladies. This happens everywhere, however, at least at other companies it is a bit more veiled, here it is so blatant. If you are not young and in the "it" crowd you do not stand much of chance. Several older employees have been leaving the company to work for places that are more truthful with their programs.
On other point of interest is this site, I had been holding off writing anything expecting the place to get better. Oddly about 6 months ago the rating for Nordstrom Technology was 1.5 now 2.2 or something. Now that leadership is paying attention to this company holder and not just Nordstrom proper the rating has gone up quickly and there are suddenly a lot of positive reviews. I am not claiming they are inflating the reviews just an odd coincidence.
