Enjoyed my employment at AFR - CNC Operator Air Flow Research Employee Review

Learned a lot and it started my journey into manufacturing.

Can be a little political

Newer facilities. Nice co-workers outside of management. Paycheck if you're desperate.

Within 6 months of working there I was depressed to see the lack of culture and industry leadership. There is ZERO progressive development at this company other than the bare minimum of what's required. AFR is solely riding on their name alone with no design innovation or responsible product testing. They willingly sell products that they know are faulty and ask sales to "toe the line" instead of pulling it from production. Product development takes FOREVER and it's guaranteed to have problems once released. They release product with errors due to lack of knowledge and proper testing, then scramble to fix problems once the customer complains... burning the customers time and money while making your job harder. The company has been in business for 45+ years and still takes multiple weeks to manufacture their product, where the competition has it on the shelf or ready to ship within days. Sales job is constant damage control with production lead times and lack of product availability. The technical data on their own website and catalog is incorrect thanks to owner being inept and always thrashing to get stuff done.... making everyone's job even more frustrating then it already is. Owner always dabbling in pet projects like website, catalog or pricing that negatively interfere with your job. This all comes down to the owner being too cheap to invest in strategies that are actually proven to work. Instead owner will play pretend businessman with everyone's career in jeopardy. If you're passionate about the performance automotive industry, AFR will be a complete letdown. There is NO CAR CULTURE within ownership or management... it's solely a business that clumsily fumbles along under lack of leadership, direction and progression while riding on a name. More importantly, the pay is low for the region, profession and scope of work. I was hired on as Sales/Tech Support and quickly was thrown into social media marketing, catalog development, new product development research, technical article writing and website development. The owner and management will play the game like they're including you in the decisions but in reality it becomes a job on top of what you were hired to do. As a professional with over 10 years of experience in the automotive performance aftermarket industry, AFR has been one of the most negative experiences I've had and the future there looks even worse with the next generation ready to take over. I left a great company because I moved out of their area and I wound up at AFR. Don't make the same mistake I did. Look for a more progressive company that is actually moving forward or you too will stagnate here. AFR will compromise your professional reputation due to their own incompetence and lack of direction and leadership. The owner has a unique and distasteful history of burning the very people that helped make them successful... that is the true AFR culture.