Airbus reviews

4.1

84% would recommend to a friend

(3,663 total reviews)
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Guillaume Faury

94% approve of CEO

74% positive business outlook

Airbus has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 3,663 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Airbus employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Aeroespacial y defensa industry (3.6 stars).

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1.0
Oct 24, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Building helicopters is an interesting industry. The company is small enough to allow access to all parts of the operation for those who are interested.

Cons

The biggest downside is the French management and their caste system mentality. If you are not a French ex pat, you can forget a senior level career with this company. Pay and benefits for equivalent title and responsibility jobs are dramatically greater for French employees than for American employees. An inordinate amount of time is spent in meetings; in 25+ years in corporate America, I have never seen so much time wasted in meetings that accomplish nothing. I also experienced more arrogance from senior management and French ex pats than I have ever encountered. The rules simply did not apply to them. Information and knowledge are not shared.

1.0
May 8, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Company is only good in Europe for mechanical and electrical people as it is an aircraft manufacturer. It is a cost centre in india(NOT A DEVELOPMENT CENTRE) and undertakes all kind of maintenance work on tools in India. Prefers seniority over proficiency. Non technical people in IM (Tech dept of Airbus ) Provides standard salary at entry level and medical facilities which other companies provide. Not a good company for computer science engineer who wants to work on some cutting edge tech. Some teams are doing OK'ish work .

Cons

working on outdated technologies for most of the teams , not flexible in adopting new and best practices. Bossy culture (say yes) to their every bad decision, work like a rat , don't question . Bootlicking preferred. Leave policy also quite stringent. Politics is major part of day's proceedings. Poor hiring is done here intentionally to make people work on less important work that is passed on to Airbus India . Only for senior people with 5-10 years of experience who want to have slow paced work and are done with development work in their career. HR policies here are very rigid ( tie employee to a 3 month notice period ) and HR here don't have any power . Everything resides with your engineering manager.

2.0
Feb 15, 2021

Not at all a good place to be

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Work-life balance. Exposure and visibility across functions. If your manager is good, you can get a lot of good work done.

Cons

Major politics. Some of the group managers are the worst. They harass people and even on complaining, no major steps are taken against the perpetrators. There has been no hike since last 2 years and they make you sign a bond for 3 years for 5 lakh rupees. Company is not at all employee or woman friendly. It is not a next gen company at all. Anyone looking for major growth should not come here. Leadership is extremely biased and protects the harassers.

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