IKEA reviews

3.5

54% would recommend to a friend

(9,128 total reviews)
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Juvencio Maeztu

64% approve of CEO

47% positive business outlook

IKEA has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 9,128 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 (3.4 stars).

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9K reviews
3.0
May 6, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

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.

1.0
Jan 15, 2023

Don’t do it

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

There are little pros but one is PTO

Cons

The leadership team is not existent. Managers do not work schedules, call offs are rampant. Store is full of clicks either your in or your out and if your out they will make sure your out. They speak a great game of inclusiveness but do not act what is preached in my opinion the leadership team needs a rebuild from top down including upper HR leadership only the new members are worth while

1.0
Nov 25, 2022

Was once a great company

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Benefits are good for retail

Cons

Do not recommend. They have been systematically removing anyone with experience and higher salary so current management is inexperienced. Store senior management treat people as disposable but expect deep loyalty. CEO is verbally abusive and company culture is toxic. Stores can’t get any stock to sell so sales goals can’t be met and management try to pass the blame to anyone they can.

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