Air Products reviews

3.8

72% would recommend to a friend

(1,458 total reviews)
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Eduardo Menezes

64% approve of CEO

52% positive business outlook

Air Products has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 1,458 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Air Products employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.7 stars).

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2.0
Mar 30, 2011
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Pros

The Finance community offers a lot of good diverse jobs with which to work in. Work Life balance is pretty good. Benefits are good. Part of an oligopoly market so most likely won't go away anytime soon. Has two cafeterias and one fitness center and a health center on its main campus. Job security - have to be an idiot to get fired.

Cons

Senior management is poor at best. The company succeeds in spite of management. Its common to hear that this person got promoted because they are a friend of John McGlade. Company is not growing organically and in fact losing market share to its competitors. The culture is akin to stepping into a time warp back to the 1980's. Too much dead weight in the Finance organization prevents younger talent from moving up. Location - best part about Allentown is its proximity to Philly and New York City.

5.0
Mar 4, 2011
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Pros

Generally, the company highers individuals of high caliber and above average intelligence with strong work ethics. This makes for a pleasasnt work atmosphere and ease of association amongst teams and across departments. It is fascinating that this profile exists across a culturally diverse employee base and is interesting to observe how a 'we can do anything' coupled with a 'get it done' attitude can pervade acros all nationalities at the company.

Cons

As typical of any large organization, factions develop and maintaining relationships across the teams and groups can become more important than competence. I have seen excellent individuals impinge their careers by not accepting a '90%' solution because they new it could be better. (Nobody does '80%' at APD). Worst problem is the occasional quasi competent who ingratiates themselves to a rising star and causes corporate damage until eventual exposure (one individual rode the star for near 15 yrs before losing the umbrella and departing the company). Somewhat typical Fortune 500 politics.

5.0
Feb 21, 2011
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Pros

Good people, friendly environment, people do the right thing

Cons

Engineering company - over analytical. Take CI to the extreme - there are some processess that do not require a full blow CI process.

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