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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3.0
Oct 24, 2017

Some good, some bad

Anonymous employee
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Pros

You get a good feeling when you first join, impressive reception area, looks like a lot of money has been spent and you feel like you're joining a high-tech company. Good holiday, flexi-time, good food areas, free language course. Lots of good benefits and bonuses to normal working arrangements.

Cons

Poor salaries; Over three years there I received below-inflation raises to my pay resulting in me earning less in real-terms when I left to when I first started. This was due to cost cutting, however every year you're marched down to the leisure centre to hear of multi-million euro profits by CEOs earning three or four times as much as you. You can never get hold of anyone as they're "in a meeting," seemingly permanently.

3.0
Mar 20, 2017
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Pros

The decent benefits are decent (for engineering) and the flexitime scheme gives a respectable work life balance by UK standards. There is a limited training budget, but overall the training opportunities are above average. By and large there is a friendly working environment. There are some very interesting projects to work on. For (prospective) systems engineers and project managers, I would say MBDA is a good place to be.

Cons

Most of the recruitment is via the graduate scheme, with interviews conducted to assess general skills and behaviours. Unfortunately, in my experience, this approach is also applied to experienced candidates, so don't be surprised to not see your prospective line manager in your interview. On your first day at work you may also be surprised to find that your role bares little or no similarity to the one for which you applied and that your line manager wasn't entirely behind your employment. Be warned, you may end up as a square peg in a round hole! There is limited room for progression once you've reached level 4, which you should reach with 3-4 years experience post-graduate scheme. In order to move higher, you have to be managing a set number of people meaning that people that want to follow a purely the path to Technical Expert, rather than project management, are likely to be stuck at this level for many years, if not permanently. This is a systems engineering company, so if you're looking to do 'hands on' engineering, technology or scientific research be very careful because although there are areas of the business within which you can pursue these disciplines, on the whole they are are few and far between.

1.0
May 27, 2016

Technician

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Not a particularly good environment. Deep rooted old fashioned culture , longevity results in progression not ability. A organisation with a conservative no outlook, no serious future if happen to be black/coloured/ oriental.

Cons

Too many to list. If you have a different ethnic heritage then there is a high degree that you will not get very far in this organisation. Essentially you would be a 'Token ' , to appease the bureaucratic process and of course the statistic . The irony is a large number of the organisations customers are foreign, where orders have been secured by questionable practice , as an analogy think of football and 'bungs' .

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