IKEA reviews

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.

You truly have to be a self starter to work at IKEA, because the training and competence development is non-existent. The IKEA store is a high-volume, low cost business, so there is limited investment in staffing and resources. It's pretty much bare-bones, so you have to be willing to support other departments and do things outside of your job description. Upper management is out of touch with the department managers and hourly coworkers. They are focused strictly on bottom line results and do little to motivate employees. Instead they typically sit in meetings all day or in their office, with no clue as to what transpires out on the floor.