Airbus reviews

Team managers and department heads are on a power trip. HR is incompetent. Treatment of subcontractors is bad. High amount of politics among peer groups. Pay is below par compared to market trends. Lots of favouritism, need to work or pretend to work long hours to be in the good books of management. Jobs that Europe does not want are sent to the India office. No meaningful engineering work. Your career cannot progress here. The only options to grow are either lead engineer or manager but you'll be stuck in your role for years on capped salary.

Unbelievably slow; don't expect to be handed a massive workload to immerse yourself in and grow. You will grow and learn at a pace dictated by the company. Very cyclical workload, projects last half a decade and depending on when you join the company, you could completely miss certain phases of the projects. Very old colleagues in certain areas who may need to be 'coached' into helping you/giving you work. Everything is reliability focused (which isn't really airbus' fault) which makes everything slow and cumbersome, don't expect to innovate anything.