Pros
Decent benefits, steady accounts, good location.
Cons
AIMIA call themselves a marketing firm when in actuality they are an advertising agency without any of the structure and perks of an actual agency. The company is decades behind in thinking and the Detroit office is a time warp to your mundane corporate environment of the 90's. It is extremely quiet and employees sit in tall cubicles and do not communicate with one another. There is zero innovation and new ideas are frequently rejected. In fact, most people have been employed at the company for 20+ years. Their many years at the company make them extremely resistant to new processes, vendors, people and change in general. At AIMIA you are not set up for failure from the start. This medium sized agency does not have HR onsite. Their HR is based out of their Minneapolis office and before I started, their team incorrectly entered in my social security number and informed me my identity was stolen. Several days passed and I had to call their background check company myself to resolve the issue. To my sheer panic I was relieved when I found out their HR incorrectly entered in my information incorrectly into the system but things did not get better. I disclosed I had mandatory days I needed to take off and asked if I could push back my start date, but my request was denied. Upon my first week of work, HR failed to secure a computer and phone for me. I did not receive a computer for several days and never received a phone (I had to use my personal phone). Once I received a computer, their IT person informed me to log a ticket to their Minneapolis office to get situated which took several additional days. Communicating with AIMIA's IT was extremely difficult and they blatantly refused to help, so any maintenance issues were put on hold for days and effected my work. If you had issues with printing, you had to call their Minneapolis office and stay on the phone for hours. If you needed new hardware, often time you had to bring your own from home. I also frequently saw their IT person in the bathroom sleeping. AIMIA offer full service initiatives to their clients but are extremely dated in the digital realm. You will work on catalogues, brochures and grids. If you are given the opportunity to work on a digital project, the creative team will panic and deadlines will likely be missed due to incompetence and inexperience. If you need support, your boss will not know how to help you because he/she is more concerned with impressing clients with quantity of projects over quality of projects. There is zero growth at AIMIA overall. You may receive a pay increase but you will learn no new skills and will fail at your next company should you decide to leave (most do not).