Airbus reviews

4.1

84% would recommend to a friend

(3,665 total reviews)
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Guillaume Faury

94% approve of CEO

74% positive business outlook

Airbus has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 3,665 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Airbus employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Aeroespacial y defensa industry (3.6 stars).

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4K reviews
5.0
Jan 16, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Amazing company culture and colaboration

Cons

I dont see any cons

3.0
Jan 13, 2026

High workload High pressure

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good learning.high workload and high pressure helps you to learn things fast.

Cons

No proper guidance causes many things done wrongly. Need to rectify. High pressure and high workload. One person doing 3 person job.

5.0
Jan 13, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- 35 Hour Weeks, and early finishes on Fridays at 12PM. Makes a great experience for Gym, Shopping, etc as you have quiet times to go. Thursdays often feeling like you have concurred the bulk of the week. Extending the weekend. - There are many events at the office that occur, with many communities, there are also many group chats about anything informal. You can easily make some friends or a community of people. - Big Employer outside of London, you get a recognised name, while being able to commute and drive to the office. Bristol is also very nice town. - Travel to many destinations (with generous expense policy), you can use airport lounges, eat out at your choice of restaurants for dinner, lunch, Expense snacks and drinks as you please, etc. - Very nice offices, each with their own piece of engineering history. Some connected to Airports, some with their own runways. As Airbus sites work together, you often get to travel for business reasons and see them all. - People are generally passionate at Airbus, and you can feel the buzz working in the office. This makes you proud to be there.

Cons

- Salary is not great, and bandings very limited. This job will not make you rich, but enough to live day by day. The promotions are very hard to come-by, and you will need endless working appetite, few years of tenure, and manager backing. The company generally does not want to expand budgets for roles, so they keep you in the smallest band and make it as hard as they can for you to get promoted. - Once you reach a senior band, it becomes very hard to go higher, if you are early in your career, expect 10+ years of tenure to reach a manager band and average pay once achieved. - Managers often are given positions because of tenure and not expertise. For example HR can move to Technical IT management commanding senior developers and architects. There is a clear lack of expertise with many managers, and therefore a lot of clueless managers operating large departments. - You will work with people in a range of countries daily. Generally it can feel a tricky dynamic working in this environment with some unfriendliness in some circumstances based solely on culture/location. - The company relies heavily on contractors, if you join with ambition to create a better future yourself, often times this dream will not happen, as most likely you will be governing and reporting on the work of other external organising doing the work. Therefore if you have a passion for what you want to do, this would not be the place. If you enjoy high-level, email and documentation you will love it. - 3 Days a week in the office, which requires you to 'book' your work from home days in advanced and throughly tracked. No exceptions to the policy. This requires you to move close to the office to work here, as commuting may be too much for this frequency.

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Airbus Response
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Thank you for your feedback! We really appreciate you taking the time to share your journey with us and for highlighting the passion that makes Airbus a unique place to work. It’s fantastic to hear you enjoyed the flexibility of our 35-hour weeks and the strong sense of community we strive to build in our Bristol offices. I am, however, sorry to read that your not all areas of your experience met your expectations. Please be assured that we take your detailed concerns regarding technical expertise in management and salary banding seriously. We will ensure that your review is brought to the attention of our team in Bristol to help us continue refining how we grow and develop our people. We wish you the very best in your future career.
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