Great Experience - Challenging Workplace - Engineer Airbus Employee Review

4.0
Mar 16, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Very challenging environment with very complex projects - Generally, very intelligent co-workers and peers - Lots of different departments with very different activities (from aerodynamics to psychological studies, aircraft configuration, fablabs, manufacturing, 3D printing, logistics, strategy, etc.) - discovering something new every day, very different "worlds" from one department to another - Extremely good quality of life with plenty of perks (internal canteens are more like restaurants and reductions for external activities and stores are plenty) - Global plants and offices (UK, France, Germany, Spain, US, China, Shanghai, etc.) - great for moving in a different country - Working in aerospace is generally amazing and will keep you learning new things during all your career (provided you wish for it) - Awesome opportunity of working with external companies from across the world and meet people from all walks of life - Mobility wishing the company is encouraged and provided there is a need, people can easily move from one department to another and basically start a new life

Cons

- Work/life balance very low if involved in critical projects - working hours and pressure increase dramatically - Old management style and generally rigid (agility and forward thinking are not always allowed/encouraged) - Not the best methods of compensation for personal achievements - rather general efforts/achievements recognition aligned with global strategy applied to everyone else - Changing things can be painfully slow (although personally rewarding at the end) - Internal promotion usually depends somewhat on resume (name of school, relationships and ties to "political" figures inside the company) rather than actual skills and experience - Very regulated environment across the company (inspired by aeronautics safety) - even if not vital for some activities/departments - Not always the best working environment - lots of old buildings, no Google-like offices - Salaries are generally lower than the country average and are guided by global strategy - pretty much everyone gets the same

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1.0
May 23, 2026
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Pros

I had a job to survive

Cons

I thought coming in this organization would treat you better, but they still haven't learned from years of people have these experiences. This "one team" is simply obedience and this is not a review from someone who didn't want to do there job. It is purely a social game here. I haven't met a person yet who didn't talk about drinking or trying to have unprofessional relations within this organization. They have people who care, but not enough to actually do anything about it. They made promises of fixing the underlying issues, sending people to other locations, working to make the workplace better. But I promise you, they won't. In the U.S., you are a pawn to them, this is still a European company, and ethics isn't there game and you don't want to play. You can report, take time to make sure things are safe for others, but God forbid if you get a manager who sees you as a threat or gaslights you about your performance. They want you to rush, take unnecessary risks and they will discriminate you depending on the location. Come prepared with ADA accommodations, empower yourself to say no. And do everything you can to protect yourself if you want a job here without putting someone's life at risk. There is a reason Airbus tapered with evidence gathering flight recordings in France. And. they. got. away. with. It. If you get to a place were you can turn a blind eye, or have what I call, golden life privilege, where you made it somewhere and have some skills hard to come by with inequity in this world, then sign right up. That's what these positive reviews are about, it is just a game and they play the popularity contest to win. Not to keep you, and they will let you go, when you stand by the so called integrity they hire you on. Because this is a first hand account of it, and they will, take all the information you gather away from you.

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