AAR reviews

3.1

43% would recommend to a friend

(650 total reviews)
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John Holmes

55% approve of CEO

34% positive business outlook

AAR has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 650 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The AAR employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Aerospace & Defense industry (3.6 stars).

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650 reviews
1.0
Jul 20, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Time off Insurance is okay. The requirement is 20 words, and I really have no other pros to say so I'm filling up space.

Cons

Pay Schedule Lack of leadership Morale Micromanagment Lack of experienced mechanics to learn from Time constraints and budget force leadership to rely on the few experienced individuals to carry the load while the inexperienced fall further behind and learn nothing.

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AAR Response
8y
Thank-you for review, as been with the Company 7 years now, so call (630) 227-2074 to discuss if you want. Let's keep 'em Flying everybody, G-Man
1.0
Jul 7, 2017

LOL this place is a cluster

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

4 10's, lots Vets, pushes you do better yourself so you can leave for a better job.

Cons

place is full of miserable people. When I was ARMY aviation I wanted to do it forever. AAR made me get my masters so that I NEVER have to deal with an organization like it again.

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AAR Response
8y
Not sure how to reply, yet always open to trying to do my best. One item is the Veteran platform, as have worked hard on that. V/R, G-Man
2.0
Jun 25, 2017

I want to love this job.

Recommend
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Pros

Great coworkers, always willing to help out, which is good because there is no on the job training and no direction from leaders -there is a real 'figure it out or be shown the door' mentality from management which is dangerous when putting the lives of airline passengers on the line. Airplanes are complicated and nobody is an expert at all tasks.

Cons

One particular manager is single handedly going to shut down the MRO. All of the good technicians and team leads have fled the company within the last 3 weeks due to his mismanagement. Our planes go out weeks late and when they go out they come back the same day with problems, which are usually unethically and illegally jury-rigged. Pay is very poor for the field. Managers and supervisors seem to be unhinged, emotionally unstable, unpredictable maniacs and are either your best friend or at risk of physically assaulting you at any given time. Verbal abuse is the norm. Forced mandatory overtime and 12 to 14 hour days have burnt out the few people who actually cared about their work. In addition to the Duluth facility losing 20-30 of their best employees of maybe 300 some employees, a handful of career ending injuries and heart attacks have cost even more. I wouldn't be caught dead on an Air Canada or United plane... well... I suppose there is a really good chance I'd be dead if I ever flew on one these disasters.

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AAR Response
8y
Give me a buzz at 630-227-2074. Blue skies all, G-Man
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