The Graduate Development Programme - Design Engineer Airbus Employee Review

1.0
Aug 7, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Interesting projects on paper and the opportunity to work with schools and universities.

Cons

An extremely dull day to day experience with little to no challenging work for most starters in the company (reading documents for a couple of weeks is normal). A varied and unequal experience across all sites and countries makes it feel even less fair (see the variety in the reviews here). Advertised as a competitive working environment with technical training although this is non-existent for the first few years. The projects and the process (although this could be endemic to the industry) is so complex that I am not surprised by the non-profitable nature of the company and the inability to meet deadlines or budgets. If you would like a foot in the door and to develop just enough so that you can be poached by another company then go for it. Otherwise stick around for four or five years in order to get noticed and perhaps be given something interesting to work on. Starting on a team or in the company in general is fairly daunting with no real integration or "team spirit", it's actually a really demotivating working environment on the most part and it's very hard to feed this back to upper management. A lot of the day is spent chasing up expenses and problems regarding HR as they seem to be overworked however this doesn't make it easy when emails and phone calls go unanswered for weeks.

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1.0
May 23, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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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