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      IKEA

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      IKEA reviews

      3.7

      65% would recommend to a friend

      (13,405 total reviews)
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      Juvencio Maeztu

      77% approve of CEO

      48% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.2

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.8

      Culture & values

      3.6

      Compensation and benefits

      3.5

      Work/Life balance

      3.3

      Career opportunities

      3.0

      Senior management

      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 Retail and wholesale industry (3.5 stars).

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      13K reviews
      1.0
      Jan 20, 2022

      Unsatisfactory. Poor management.

      Sales and service associate
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Benefits are not too bad

      Cons

      Poor management that promotes a lot of favouritism. Some of the so-called ‘leaders’ here are also quite fake and their actions really differ from what they say. The culture here is terrible. Only join here if you really like to boot lick your bosses and you are really adept at office politics/backstabbing your colleagues/leaders at any chance you can while pretending to be their friends. That’s why many of the good workers who actually know their stuff have left and the bootlickers who pretend that they know their stuff are still there.

      3.0
      Mar 26, 2022

      Extremely high tempo, but it may be worth it

      Graphic communication co-worker
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Hands on and engaging working environment where you need to wear quite a few hats. You get to experience almost everything by the time you finish your first month in the role. Friendly co-workers and line managers that do make everything worth it - dependent on work location and the team, of course. Good benefits programme and leave policy.

      Cons

      Very high tempo and absolutely no lull periods - back to back major projects/campaigns, leading to a lack of time to fulfill the basics for the store. Leads to a lot of unreported but still necessary OT to meet the store's needs - work brought home to complete, poor work life balance. Very lean staffing that increases workload on the team. Poor incentive plan at year of joining. Higher management (store, and service office) not sensitive to what's actually happening on the ground, and not helpful in making things happen. Sometimes too many stakeholders trying to put their hand in the pot.

      1.0
      Mar 30, 2026

      Vulgar and bad

      Packer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      none at all, maybe the cheap/free food

      Cons

      As a packer, I had to carry heavy load things. The full timers take the small easy to handle orders and they drive forklifts and use vehicles. While the part timers will pick shelves by hand and literally bend over to grab boxes weighing over 80kg. And they complain that we don't hit KPI

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