IKEA reviews

3.7

65% would recommend to a friend

(13,399 total reviews)
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Juvencio Maeztu

76% approve of CEO

48% positive business outlook

IKEA has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 13,399 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The IKEA employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Ventas al mayoreo y al menudeo industry (3.5 stars).

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13K reviews
3.0
Jan 9, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

+Pay: Minimum pay was raised to 15$ company wide which is both a pro and con; lower level employees saw a decent bump while higher level employees saw next to nothing +Culture/Values: Very inclusive, understanding and accommodating to personal and medical issues +Benefits: Great medical/dental/vision, lengthy vacation/sick time, LoA's available for medical or personal reasons, Christmas gifts, HL2's eligible for certain benefits, possible year end bonus (company-wide performance based)

Cons

+Pay: I know I put this twice but it's a double edged sword - it seems good at first until you realize you're often working way harder than what they're paying you to do (management issues) +Management: Honestly awful. Managers spend most of their time talking about work rather than doing anything, either in meetings or at their desks. When they do hit the floor it's to give contradictory input on how to do your job before disappearing again. Far too many cooks in this kitchen and none of them know how to cook +Minimal growth: Hard to move past regular co-worker status +Unstable: Company likes to restructure a lot which often results in employees leaving or losing their job +Scheduling: Very few positions have a set schedule meaning you're at the whim of management each week

1.0
Oct 7, 2022

Lies upon lies

Recommend
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Pros

Benefits, hours, coworkers, & pto

Cons

Management is a joke. Not one manager is qualified for their role. How can you be an Interior Design Manager without spending one single second in a single Interior Design course and ZERO previous design experience!!??

2.0
Aug 1, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

IKEA demands you feel included in the IKEA work family and it makes you feel proud at times.

Cons

IKEA places it's customer facing co-workers into the most unsupported positions. There is a lack of strong leadership and a slew of complicated processes that lead to coworkers not knowing what they're doing and leads take little initiative to help. IKEA has moved resources from stores to online and leaves stores to fend for themselves, this trickles down to coworkers being expected to run the business while being pulled and shoved by managers and leaders to follow orders. IKEA makes every attempt to ensure they're safe from a PR perspective when it comes to taking care of their coworkers but fail to follow through with anything more than figurative pats on the back.

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