Great Friendships Lousy Management - Anonymous employee IKEA Employee Review

2.0
Dec 14, 2012
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great friendships made. Fun job with original staff. Fun working environment (sometimes).

Cons

"This used to be a Fun house but now its filled of evil clowns" Don't know if this is only at the Brooklyn store but the management is really cliche like. If you don't suck up enough you're not moving up at all. Promotions are near to impossible unless you know the right people. HR is also biased one manager could have a file of complaints against them and HR will turn a blind eye and tell the co-workers to "deal with it."

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