Visual Merchandiser - Visual Merchandiser IKEA Employee Review

3.0
Aug 26, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Fun co-workers, great hours, great PTO, good benefits, good pay.

Cons

Manager is awful. She gossips with her staff, plants seeds of distrust through her team, spends the day walking around with her hands in her pockets doing nothing. She is obsessed with saving the whales. She smokes and smells awful because of it. You have to wear the hideous yellow uniform, even though you are not a sales associate. This makes doing your job as a visual merchandiser really difficult, because you are often the only person in the whole department, and customers harrass you constantly.

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Pros

I have a very empathetic and flexible manager. Although I do meet the requirement to be in office three days a week many others do not and don’t seem to suffer for it. My work can be challenging at times, but due to the slow pace of most things here I rarely feel overwhelmed.

Cons

This is, without equivocation, the most sclerotic organization I have ever been a part of. The management structure and reporting lines are inscrutable and even after 3 years I barely understand how my team fits into the larger picture. My job is a data role, and although getting access to data has improved somewhat, it is still one of my biggest blockers.

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