Does MBDA pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, MBDA employees rate their compensation and benefits as 4.1 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at MBDA. This rating has decreased by 1% over the last 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at MBDA?

92% of MBDA employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated MBDA 4.6 out of 5 for work life balance, 4.4 for culture and values and 4.3 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at MBDA?

Principal Engineer (55) , Systems Engineer (49) , Senior Engineer (44) , Project Manager (39) , Software Engineer (33) , Senior Systems Engineer (32) , Engineer (30) , Ingénieur Stagiaire (24) , Graduate Engineer (20) , Ingénieur (20) , Principal Systems Engineer (19) , Stage Ingénieur (18) , Project Controller (17) , Senior Principal Engineer (16) , Stagiaire (13)

What are the pros of working at MBDA according to real employee reviews?

"people are great and very flexible" ((in 109 reviews)); "Good benefits (pension contribution / bonus)" ((in 91 reviews)); "The culture of sharing knowledge is great with some great design patterns for some unique software products." ((in 51 reviews)); "Good opportunities to develop (both technically and professionally)" ((in 47 reviews)); "I've been working in the fpga team for over a year total and the team is great." ((in 46 reviews))

What are the cons of working at MBDA according to real employee reviews?

"Low pay compared to other companies in the industry Type of work usually requires on site working" ((in 56 reviews)); "No beating about the bush: salaries are low compared to equivalent London" ((in 44 reviews)); "Poor management and stressful." ((in 28 reviews)); "That said if you work in the right department, have a good manager and your face fits you get better treatment." ((in 13 reviews)); "bad for career progression and promotion." ((in 10 reviews))

What are employees saying about MBDA layoffs in 2026?

Explore Glassdoor’s employee reviews to understand what current and former employees are saying about MBDA layoffs and their outlook for job security at MBDA in 2026.

MBDA reviews

4.4

92% would recommend to a friend

(1,029 total reviews)

Éric Béranger

90% approve of CEO

88% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

4.6

Work/Life balance

4.4

Culture & values

4.4

Diversity & inclusion

4.3

Career opportunities

4.1

Senior management

4.1

Compensation and benefits

MBDA has an employee rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars, based on 1,029 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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1K reviews

4.0

Aug 4, 2025

MBDA

Mechanical architect

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

The people are great to work with.

Cons

The tiered mamagement system is outdated.

4.0

Aug 1, 2025

A great place to work, interesting challenges with good opportunity to learn and develop.

Senior principal engineer - environmental engineering

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

There is a lot of work across multiple programmes and sectors which means there is opportunity to get involved in things you may not have been involved in before. As a mid level manager technical manager, you are given a degree of flexibility to initiative and drive local changes and feed into wider organisational change programmes. MBDA is people focused which has good systems in place to help those who are interested in developing and progressing their career. Within my role, there are good networking both internally and externally to the company in particular with MBDA's customer / technical stakeholder community. Dynamic (flexible / hybrid working) working is a really good element of MBDA's offering. Whilst it doesnt change the terms of the contract it enables you to discuss working arrangements on a rolling basis with your direct line manager. Having you children, it has been brilliant as I can work a little extra on some days and work shorter on others to help juggle the demands of family life.

Cons

Like a majority of big organisations, especially in the defence sector, there are inefficiencies and processes that feel restrictive in particular when first joining the company. Across different sectors and programmes there are slightly different ways of working with a multitude of different tool sets, whilst all are governed by the same operating procedures the variations can make it difficult to drive consistency into the way teams operate when supporting multiple work packages on different products.

4.0

Jul 31, 2025

Flexible

Graduate engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Flexible, focused, disciplined, interesting, thought-provoking

Cons

Speed, pay, area, travel, lunch

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