Airbus reviews

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.

Management lives in a different world from the engineers! Often engineers on projects are told to prioritize administrative work over the actual project work. Human Resources work hard to impede anything, don't trust them for a second! Totally open-office concept (except managers) makes it very hard to hear yourself think.