ARI Reviews

3.5

59% would recommend to a friend

(214 total reviews)

Bob White

74% approve of CEO

54% positive business outlook

ARI has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 214 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The ARI employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Retail and wholesale industry (3.5 stars).

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214 reviews
2.0
14 Mar 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

*Solid, intelligent, and generally good upper management *Reimburse tuition 100% *Privately owned, so no threat of being fired (unless you're exceptionally awful at your job) *Annual Christmas bonus worth up to 17 days of pay, depending on goals met for the year *In-house cafeteria

Cons

*Incompetent middle management *Strategic initiatives include: obtaining more clients than the company can support; growing too rapidly / in a free-for-all to steal Element's customers; demanding too much of their employees while paying too little and then wondering why they're losing all of their top young talent who know they can get paid better for less stress almost literally anywhere else; using buzz words like "there is an opportunity" instead of "there is a problem" because management cannot face reality; promoting work-life balance to their employees when 95% of them barely have enough time to get half of their work done any given day and are forced (unofficially) to work non-paid extra hours just to keep their heads above water; restructuring departments and sibling companies every six months which makes it impossible to keep up with how the Holman organization even operates anymore; "promoting" managers by giving them different titles so that they can sneakily get pay raises; promoting anyone with a last name that matches one of the executives' last names regardless of qualification or tenure...etc. The list goes on.

1.0
25 Aug 2012

Avoid this company!!!

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Very profitable company to date.

Cons

Management only promotes friends and former acquaintances. Working hard and exceeding expectations don't matter. This was a great company that took care of its employees. With recent change in upper management, things have slowly deteriorated. Benefits were great but have slowly been shrinking. Management is hostile and only cares about personal motives and profitability.

1.0
25 Jul 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

You're able to network with a bunch of people because it's a large company.

Cons

Most of the managers (if not all) are male. You will rarely see a woman in a higher up position in this company. It's all about who you know and which managers like you that will pretty much dictate if you'll be promoted to a different position in another dept within the company. The raises are poop. Literally, dog poop and a disappointment to the staff who work their tails off throughout the course of the year. A lot of people feel stuck here and it's sad.

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