Stay away unless you are the 1% - Program Manager Aires Employee Review

1.0
Oct 27, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Good food, a couple nice people but they all end up leaving, location of office is easy to get to. Relocation is interesting but there are no jobs with anyone else nearby so useless experience.

Cons

The "family" at the top doesn't care about its employees. They portray an image to get clients and then scramble to keep up with the work. Completely misleading. So we have to keep up the lie and pretend that things are being done that are not. If you are the 1% that can become a favorite of management, or date/marry one of them - good for you. Revolving door with low pay, mandatory overtime, some of us were made to go hourly because the State came in due to so many complaints. Just look at the responses they put to every comment, an excuse for everything! No empathy or work life balance, divorce rate is huge.

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Sorry you were not happy at AIReS. Good luck in your career.

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5.0
Jul 18, 2025
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Pros

The good truly outweighs the bad. They are pretty flexible to make sure you have a good work/ life balance. Summers are busy, but that's expected in this industry. If are looking to just ride a clock Monday- Friday 8-5pm then this is not the place for you. You stay busy. I'm not aware of them ever having a layoff, so that speaks volumes about leadership.

Cons

I wish the heath insurance package was better/ cheaper and they provided tuition assistance, but other that's all I can think of. I also wish we received pay increases were more in line with inflation, but at least we received one.

1.0
Jan 2, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

- Hybrid work culture - There were some genuine good people I worked with here

Cons

Worst IT department I have ever worked at. Weak leadership that flat out ignored concerns that were brought up and only sought to place blame instead of correcting problems when something went wrong that they were warned about multiple times. This contributed to their mindset of making every little thing "urgent" - even when it wasn't, or when other employees didn't follow proper procedures they wanted it done anyway. Toxic environment with extremely poor communication and dishonesty. Micromanagers who lied and manipulated information, constantly covering up their incompetence and inability to manage others - with an extreme lack of accountability and integrity. Would tell people to get certifications and then never empower or promote employees who got them. Just got shoveled more work onto their plates without proper training on an already small staff while they never lifted a finger to help out or defend their teams when needed. Refused to enforce established policies and instead bowed down to other managers/directors who had no business sticking their nose in IT department operations - most of whom had subordinates who could barely use a computer correctly or follow directions, then cried like a toddler until they got their way.

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