Not the best company for a software engineer - Senior Software Engineer IKEA Employee Review

2.0
Aug 10, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Relax working environment if you are in the correct team - Average base salary - Availability to work on global products - 15% discount on IKEA products

Cons

- Too little resources for everything, there is no even a proper tolling provided to engineers. No proper monitor provided and you can't request any additional tooling. - Almost no proper team activities handled either in the teams or organizational because of low budget given to the teams - There are very hard dependencies to the legacy systems, and the way to solve them are mostly practical than being correct. - It is not an IT company and you feel it everyday. - Playing two faces one as a Dutch company and one a Swedish company according to the situation/problem whichever is cheaper. - There is no balance between teams, some are working full force and under stress where some teams barely have work to spend time on.

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Pros

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Cons

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4.0
Jun 1, 2026
Recommend
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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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