IKEA reviews

3.7

65% would recommend to a friend

(13,405 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 13,405 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
1.0
Aug 31, 2023

This job is so stressful it effects my mental health daily.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The benefits package is excellent

Cons

Upper management runs the business as if they are the popular kids in school picking their favorites for certain positions while the business is failing In so many areas yet they just keep calling it "realigning the business". There has been a mass exit of many people with tenure. lower management who actually sees the issues and talks to their team to see what changes could actually help the business are pushed against a wall and not allowed to make change, and if they do their job as in corrective action or write ups for those coworkers who are in subordinate or braking policy, then the team lead is generally put in a position where they are forced to quit or fired.

1.0
Jun 14, 2023

Rotten beneath the surface

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good benefits Remote work available Can move ( to some roles) pretty quickly. Don't have to be tenured like a lot of other jobs.

Cons

KPI's matter more than the employee's wellbeing. Leads are passive aggressive and try to shame you in the team chat. Excessive micromanaging. Lead doesn't know job. Relies on coworkers to tell how role works. Lead shares personal info with other coworkers, such as when someone has been disciplined Higher ups do not think things through before launching so everything is a disorganized disaster, but we're expected to just adapt. Make you feel guilty if you are sick because they are more focused on making a sale No incentive to keep employees happy aside from a not guaranteed annual bonus. Unreasonable working hours and they refuse to accommodate forcing people to choose between the job or picking up their kid on time. High turnover rate, and no steps in place to fix the problem driving people to leave or call out of work so often.

3.0
May 6, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

-Friendly coworkers and base level management. -Slowly improving pay to match a living wage. -Variety of resources and benefits. -Decent, but expensive, insurance program. -Large amount of training opportunities. -Generous employee discount program. -Very diverse usually for culture/ethnicity. -Relatively generous leave provided.

Cons

-Workplace beurocracy is rampant. -If you work outside of sales, admin, comm-in, you're going to be undervalued, overworked, and deal with minimal pay increases and less consideration for bonuses. Or rather, you have to work in tandem with every other department exceedingly hard in order to prove that you deserve a measly fraction of what the building manager gets. -ISAs (in-store agreements) are not respected if you work Quality/Recovery, especially here. That department is the last cared about and considered by other departments or upper management, outside of being the highest ranked in our country for this team, despite being integral to the vast majority of the store, and having an effect of every single department. -Favourtism is rampant, even if quite a few employees(in every department, administration included) should not be maintaining their position due to attitude and behaviour, they do and no amounts of complaints are heard unless they could lead to, or are elevated to, a lawsuit.

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