It can't be true that Nordstrom has 1,800!!! software developers, can it? What in the world do we need them for and what in the world do they do all day if that number is true?
Frankly, if there are that many, then that is THE PERFECT WAY to cut costs and leave the rest of us alone.
Lay-offs in tech please. Outsource the work. Restrict H1B
Contract it out
Software people are in a similar position as skilled industrial labor in the 1920s, as we headed into GD1.
Your wages and wage-growth far exceeded the common man, if you were a skilled steelworker, tool-and-die man, or other blue-collar hero. Now we have the "service economy", so the computer jocks have had a pretty good run.
That is about to come to an end. And no one will feel sorry for you, after "learn to code" and your unbearable Millennial arrogance. Pity Silicon Valley? No chance.
They hate your guts. They will spit on you. Good luck.
Besides, OP, the whole trajectory of modern dev practices, dev ops, open source, and cloud deployment means that these expensive people are much more disposable than they think, and much more replaceable by a 22 y-o kid or a pajeet for $75k.
Software wins! You are mere cogs now, you smarmy “software engineers”.
The number 1,800 comes from a post on blind, where the author iirc claimed a total comp of $275k.
This chucklehead claims he gets $325k tc from Nordstrom:
https://www.teamblind.com/article/Nordstrom-Total-Compensation-Ranges-My-TC-325k-nfmQJvRM
So you have shockingly overpaid primal donna “principal” guys, app dev and support teams, women in IT all over the place now I bet, those awful Millennials with the same stupid haircut, mobile devs, cloud people, refugees from the dumb acquisitions, I can believe it.
Does Nordstrom still use the incompetent, corrupt Infosys?
Did Nordstrom ever get around to cloud-hosting their core merch systems and k–ling useless, hopeless Denver?
1,800 bodies is highly believable. And Nordstrom will pay those salaries in the same way a spoiled tween will demand an expensive label — it’s “aspirational” for them to have such nice, shiny things.
Or at least it was. We will see how serious Nordstrom is about its survival on the next really bad earnings.
And no, you kids sent on your way will not find an easy next gig. A cold wind blows.
You obviously have no idea what IT does. Your company would not run without them.