They have good intentions and try to provide a great place to work. - Anonymous employee IKEA Employee Review

2.0
Mar 15, 2011
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Benefits are outstanding and the people you work with directly are good natured. If your career started with IKEA you have potential for growth.

Cons

Leadership is so consensus driven it stalls progress. Ideas can be left for months without answers, follow-up or requests to have discussions around the topic. If you have not worked in an IKEA store with a number of years of service you have no opportunity for true growth, No matter how many years in retail and at what level of responsibility you bring to the company.

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Pros

• Structured, delivery focused work • Data driven decision making • Independent ownership • Impact on team efficiency & customer xp

Cons

• Balancing customer facing expectations with project deadlines • Scope creep with cross team processes and reporting • Managers often leaned on me for more than my formal responsibilities, which led to overextension

3.0
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Pros

Great work environment Pay is great for retail Job keeps you busy

Cons

Lack of communication with leadership and coworkers. Leadership seems to have favorites Schedule but know it's a pain Seems that there's people who would like the be full time or part time that are temporary right now aren't getting the positions Feels like nepotism but maybe I'm wrong. Finding out that there's family relations just seems off putting to others. Getting responses like you didn't get the job because you didn't answer your interview questions right just seems like a cop out The amount of drama happening is getting out of hand. Leadership doesn't seem to care about it.

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