Not a good place to grow - Software Engineer Aires Employee Review

1.0
28 Nov 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Free pizza during the days they work you 10-12 hours, which is frequent.

Cons

Weekend and emergency nightly work non stop No real raises, just title promotions. Technology is very dated and mundane. They force you to work an extra unpaid hour so it’s a 9 hour day, although those favored by management work as little as 5 hours a day. All the dev is offshore for the most part. They want senior engineers but they want to pay you 80k like it’s 2007 still.

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Aires Response
6mo
Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback about your experience as a Software Engineer at Aires. We genuinely appreciate input from our team members, current or former, even when it highlights areas where we may need to improve. We are sorry to hear about your concerns around work-life balance, compensation, and equity in workload distribution. As company, we aim to create a supportive workplace where all team members feel valued and fairly treated. Your feedback provides us with valuable perspective that will help inform our ongoing efforts to improve our workplace culture and practices. At Aires, we strive to maintain market-competitive compensation by bench-marking against organizations of similar size, industry, and structure. Although we are unsure of when you were employed with us, over the past three years we’ve completed a compensation analysis and made significant investments in our total rewards strategy, particularly in IT, to attract, motivate, and retain top talent. Beyond competitive pay, we offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes health and wellness programs, recognition initiatives, flexible schedules, generous PTO, and paid holidays. Our goal is to support both the personal and professional success of every team member. We are consistently improving our technology to lead the industry and were recently shortlisted for most innovative use of technology in global mobility. While it is true that as a relocation company, we commonly have to adapt schedules to ensure that we provide the best customer service, we offer flexible scheduling practices to promote better work-life balance for all employees and the goal should always be to rotate assigned team members. If you would be willing to share more specific feedback about your experience, we welcome the opportunity to learn more. Please feel free to contact our HR department directly - HR@aires.com. Again, we thank you for your candid feedback. We wish you all the best in your future endeavors.

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5.0
18 Jul 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
2 Jan 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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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