Great place to work if you're white! - Manager IKEA Employee Review

1.0
15 Mar 2019
Recommend
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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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Pros

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Cons

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4.0
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Pros

I have a very empathetic and flexible manager. Although I do meet the requirement to be in office three days a week many others do not and don’t seem to suffer for it. My work can be challenging at times, but due to the slow pace of most things here I rarely feel overwhelmed.

Cons

This is, without equivocation, the most sclerotic organization I have ever been a part of. The management structure and reporting lines are inscrutable and even after 3 years I barely understand how my team fits into the larger picture. My job is a data role, and although getting access to data has improved somewhat, it is still one of my biggest blockers.

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