AAI Corporation Reviews

Pros

Interesting work. Great experience for an engineer like myself.

Cons

Management can be a little loopy.

Advice to Senior Management

Need sometime off.

Pros

The salary and compensation were in line with other aviation companies. There is very little oversight at the company and much of the work can be done with flex time. The company events are tons of fun.

Cons

The offices at their Hunt Valley campus are sparsely populated and it is difficult to reach many people during normal hours.

Advice to Senior Management

work on efficiency and eliminate the redundant positions at the company.

Pros

Interesting work and professional environment.

Cons

No job security, low moral, no leadership or vision

Advice to Senior Management

Treat the employees like they matter

Pros

Money, break in to UAV. Benefits are still ok.

Cons

Too much travel. Management id lossing touch with the people. Textron took over.

Advice to Senior Management

Don't forget where the rubber meets the road

Pros

Interesting technology
Focus on supporting the customers

Cons

Management uses intimidation to get what they want from their employees
Very stressful environment where work is often criticized
Aggressive deadlines

Advice to Senior Management

Remember that working together, supporting and encouraging your team is the best way to accomplish a goal. Build on what people do right. Talk to your employees at the operational (not management) level to understand their challenges and try to address them.

Pros

Flexible work schedule
supportive supervisor

Cons

No growth opportunities
toxic work environment
personality based promotions
lack of management engagement
lack of competent leadership

Advice to Senior Management

Provide clear path for professional growth
Promote based on competence not who you have known for 30 years

Pros

It is a job, nothing more

Cons

AAI usually hires retired military and thus pays very low rates because their employees have a retirement check coming as well. This also carries over to the health benefits (substandard)

Upper management does not stick by the manager's decisions creating doubt in workforce.

IT services cannot handle the department

Advice to Senior Management

Anonymous survey of all employees regarding satisfaction

Pros

-flexible scheduling
-laid back environment
-pre-merger normalcy is beging to return

Cons

-low growth opportunity (management heavy)
-poor training from unqualified professionals
-not a career driven environment
-no accountability
-average age or employees, high turnorver rate for younger career minded individual (40+)
-non-competative pay
-poor history of working documentation
-favoritism and personal relationships are heavily invovled in any type of promotion
-below average on the pay scale
-perosnal issues are ingrained in the work environment
-poor team work

Advice to Senior Management

Reassess company values and take notice of the development and aspirations of younger staff members.

Pros

Cool projects and well-run business- never any time to get bored

Cons

can be difficult to figure out who does what at first, but probably no more so than anywhere else

Advice to Senior Management

Keep up the good work- good place to be, for the most part

Pros

AAI Corporation was a very good place to work because of the people and the respect that they all had for each other.

Cons

Working for AAI Corporation as a downside with the ability for the company to provided and allow for more advanced certification and qualifications to be earned.

Advice to Senior Management

Try involving more of the talented people with the different types of work and contracts to be pursued. Do not just get stuck on one type of source or only Large contracts. Winning a lot of small contracts and expanding the types of work sought can being improve on the compan’s revenues and also prevent professional employees from being laid off.