Nepotism, Peter Principle and the Unbearable Likeness of Being Blackballed - Anonymous employee ARI Employee Review

2.0
Apr 18, 2017
Anonymous employee
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Pros

You will never get fired unless you start costing the company money and the benefits are pretty decent. Hopefully you know someone in senior management or in the family as they will create a job and pay you whatever salary you would like. Lots of lifers which builds a lot of tribal knowledge so once you learn something it costs too much time and effort to replace you.

Cons

Your job will change at the whim of upper management and they will tell you anything you want hear in order to fill a job vacancy. High turnover in some departments and it makes for a difficult situation when looking for career development. Get ready to have the finger pointed at you by management on anything and everything that goes wrong. If a manager gets the wrong idea about you it will spread throughout the organization and will end up getting you "blackballed" from moving up in the company and you will eventually be put out to pasture.

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4.0
Oct 4, 2018
Anonymous employee
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Pros

I feel that this company really does try it's best to make employees happy. I have only worked for a few companies, but ARI has made more changes to improve employee benefits than all those other companies put together. ARI does take the feedback they received from Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work for Survey and tries to make a positive difference, year over year! We have PTO time, which is 15 days for new employees (can be used for vacation or sick time). Starting in 2019, all employees will also have their birthday off as well. We also receive an annual profit sharing bonus (based on goals) , which could be up to 17 days pay. We have summer hours from June to August, as we work an hour extra Monday to Thursday, so we take a half day Friday or come in late on Monday.

Cons

Currently our 401K match is only 3%. I would like to see this percentage increase because I feel that saving for retirement should be a high priority for everyone, the individual and the company. We have some departments that have low employee turnover and some have high turnover. Perhaps if we had a better retirement match, we might retain more employees in those departments that have a high turnover rate.

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