IKEA reviews

3.7

65% would recommend to a friend

(13,404 total reviews)
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Juvencio Maeztu

77% approve of CEO

48% positive business outlook

IKEA has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 13,404 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 & Wholesale industry (3.4 stars).

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13K reviews
2.0
Mar 18, 2019

Not that great

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

A lot of paid time off. Good medical & dental. 401k match is decent.

Cons

Terrible with accommodating schedules. Pay raises are awful. Company doesn’t care much about lower level employees.

1.0
Mar 15, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Very little oversight of management. You can get away with anything for years, as long as you know whose butt to kiss.

Cons

Racist, ageist, sexist. The culture and values of IKEA are not practiced at this store. I worked there almost 20 years and saw multiple occasions of qualified brown people with 5-15 years experience shuttled into low-level roles while unqualified white people were fast-tracked into leadership positions within months. They fall over themselves to promote white people while sending the brown employees on fools errands to provide plausible deniability. The proof is that currently all 7 store managers are white, and they just hired 2 more white managers despite plenty of qualified brown people applying for the jobs. They are currently being sued by the former CFO for sex and age discrimination in a class action suit alleging that all female executives were paid significantly less than the male execs, and the lowest paid exec of all was the only black exec! And testified that they willfully pass over anyone over the age of 40 for promotion, saying they want to promote future leaders. That is only true as long as those future leaders are white, because if they are not white, then they tell those people that they just don't have enough experience. Classic racism.

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