MBDA reviews

4.4

93% would recommend to a friend

(1,024 total reviews)
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Éric Béranger

90% approve of CEO

89% positive business outlook

MBDA has an employee rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars, based on 1,024 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The MBDA employee rating is 21% above average for employers within the Luft- & Raumfahrt, Verteidigung industry (3.6 stars).

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2.0
Mar 14, 2015
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Pros

Set in an extremely pleasant campus environment, with excellent canteen facilities, a pleasurable environment which belies the serious nature of the work. Many of the core staff are pretty much lifetime employees, with an ingrained loyalty to the business. which results in considerable expertise but a resentment of incoming talent (see below)

Cons

As referred to above, there is a great deal of resentment of incoming talent, and a reluctance to both work with international partners and to think outside the box. The location (Stevenage) is fairly remote and offers little opportunity for extra curricular social networking

1.0
May 17, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Well its a job and they pay you, but really if u qualify for benefits you would be in much better health if you took them instead.

Cons

Where to start, pretty much everything bad that has been already stated about MBDA on this website is true. I was given a permanent role but actually they treated me as a contractor and a cheap one at that. Fairly sure they do that on a regular basis looking at the staff turnover of recent recruits. People are mostly incompetent and deliberately trying to find ways to use their positions to their advantage with almost no bounds to what they will do. I was even told by HR when i joined "The management do anything to keep their jobs" i wanted to quit then and there and i should have done but like everyone we try not to think negatively and need the money. I was also told they have a high rate of industrial sabbotage, not surprising considering the appalling culture. Anyone joining the company now doesnt stand a chance graduates, are simply dumped with previous failed projects and left to fend for themselves.

4.0
Feb 17, 2013

Good place to work, can be frustrating

Anonymous employee
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Pros

MBDA makes excellent products. It has a great depth of technical expertise and experience, but most of this is in the heads of its technical employees. The pay and benefits are reasonable for a defence company. It is doing well financially. Employees are generally well-treated, and there really is not a 'blame culture'. The turnover rate is low, and many people have been there for twenty or thirty years.

Cons

Many people have been there for twenty or thirty years ... and many are set in their ways. Organisationally, MBDA is overly complex and full of stove pipes. Middle management is mostly overhead. Opportunities for career progression are limited.

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