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

2.0
10 Aug 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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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5.0
14 Apr 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great managers and coworkers-felt like family.

Cons

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3.0
29 June 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

good employee benefits free food

Cons

long hours and micromanagement, tired workers

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