Supportive environment with slow upward growth - Sales Co-Worker IKEA Employee Review

4.0
Apr 23, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Great work-life balance for a retail job. If you show interest, managers and leaders will help you develop. Most people are very friendly. They offer free coffee and affordable lunches. After 6 months, you get a 401 (k) with matching. After one year, you can apply for education assistences. They are very inclusive to all cultures and accommodating to religious values, sexual orientation, and cultural differences. Once you hire its is easy to move departments within a year. All co-workers are provided with holiday pay, sickleave, and pto.

Cons

Upward growth is slow; it can take an average of 2 years to move up in management or become a specialist if you stay in one location. News and gossip spread quickly. Pay is competitive for the first year, but pay growth is small year after year unless you go into management or a specialist role. They are slow to hire and slow to fire.

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5.0
Jun 22, 2026
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Pros

Side rights Putting human factor first Company Vision and Misson

Cons

Hard to position changes Managers tend to stay in same position years and years so if they are not nice you have to work w them

3.0
Jun 16, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Good work environment Pay is good Job keeps you busy

Cons

Lack of communication with leadership and coworkers. Leadership seems to have favorites Schedule takes too long to make 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. Getting responses like you didn't get the job because you didn't answer your interview questions right just seems unnecessary The amount of drama happening is getting out of hand and leadership doesn't seem to care

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