Air Liquide Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Air Liquide full-time for less than a year

Pros – -Excellent career growth and training opportunities
-Excellent benefits
-Wide range of products/niches, with constant innovation

Cons – -Poor resource management leading to bad work/life balance

Advice to Senior Management – -Better resource management

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Air Liquide

Pros – Laid back atmosphere, very nice employees always willing to help you learn, good flexibility

Cons – can be "clicky" at times, networking is a must for vertical movement

Advice to Senior Management – promote based on performance, not on networking ability

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Air Liquide full-time for more than a year

Pros – Pay is adequate and benefits are good. In this particular project engineering role, working hours and vacation days are fairly flexible. The large company offers stability and job security.

Cons – Upper management seems out of touch and often introduces significant policy changes without fully thinking them through. This means that we are frequently burdened with new requirements that have no practical implementation plan. Company-issued cell phones and laptops are very outdated and most software is poorly designed, which means even simple tasks can be time-consuming. This is nominally an engineering position, but the vast majority of the work is administrative and clerical in nature.

Advice to Senior Management – Give employees the proper tools to do their jobs, and make an effort to take advantage of employees' unique strengths.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Air Liquide as an intern for less than a year

Pros – ALLEX program for new hires is very good if you have the opportunity/desire to enter it. Many good people at a variety of positions within the company, work culture was sometimes good. Intern pay was higher than I've seen elsewhere. I learned a lot working here. Intern seminar was boring, but a good opportunity to meet other interns and people in company.

Cons – Many employees (engineers mostly), once officially hired full-time, seemed very overworked (clashed with image company used to recruit of work/life balance), though workload was fair as an intern. Rather difficult to discern what expectations are as an intern. Performance reviews were lacking, little feedback given until last day on the job. Management was hectic and a little disorganized. I personally did not seem to fit into company culture well, which detracted from the experience working there. That may not be fully be their fault; it may have just been a poor fit.

Advice to Senior Management – Give better feedback during internship. Give interns, at least at the start, a little more structure. Spice up the intern seminar a bit if possible, a plant tour or something similar would improve things. Keep ALLEX program going, while I did not enter it, it seems like a really good system to immerse new employees into the company.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Air Liquide full-time for more than a year

Pros – Global company, decent pay and benefits

Cons – There is no leadership in the true sense, yes there are managers and directors, but leadership??? You will work for and with foreigners that have no idea how to lead, your peers will stab you in the back and management will never stand up for you. Management has the mindset that any subordinate is guilty until proven innocent, and your boss will not hear you out.

Advice to Senior Management – Is not standing up for your team a reflection of senior management?

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Air Liquide as a contractor for less than a year

Pros – Highly committed to making sure employees are in a safe work environment. Monthly safety meetings and workshops on safety.

Cons – Not much flexibility on vacation and holidays.

– I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Air Liquide full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Great Benefits and learned alot. Hire really smart people.

Cons – Company politics made the environment sometimes unbearable. Really concerned about company image and takes it into account when hiring.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Air Liquide full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Coworkers are good people, the location is nice...

Cons – The pay is very low and not according to market. You have to be into the politics and play your part in order to get ahead. The yearly performance reviews are terrible and upper management decides your reviews, which is how they keep the bonuses low for the employee, bonuses are very low not unless you are director or higher and yearly increase are very low to none.

Advice to Senior Management – Stop being so cheap and pay your employees what they are worth. In additon stop showing favoritism and streamlining certain employees just because you know them, be fair and give credit where credit is due.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Air Liquide full-time

Pros – Because Air Liquide serves companies in so many different industries, it provides windows into many different enterprises. Whether you want to learn about steel making or freezing crawfish, you can learn about it at Air Liquide.

Cons – The company has a terribly cumbersome process for allocating capital, and only the very top executives, perhaps even only the executives in Paris, are authorized to make decisions.

Advice to Senior Management – Push decision making down within the organization.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Air Liquide

Pros – In every plant I visited there seemed to be a great atmosphere. There was a lot of hands on work, which was fun.

Cons – None comes to mind at the moment.