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I have met many former Airbus engineers and former Airbus contractors. Every single time I have heard nothing but bad things about the company. Sure, selection

I have met many former Airbus engineers and former Airbus contractors. Every single time I have heard nothing but bad things about the company. Sure, selection bias, but everything I heard is exactly what I would expect from a large corporation, split across a continent at its worst. Long, tedious decision processes which are completely opaque together with a culture, where management sees it as their responsibility to create a large bureocratic processes to navigate the extremely challenging landscape, where culture and geography clash. Mind you these are complaints from people still working in Aerospace. In general I have always had terrible experience the more diverse and intercultural Teams got. The best teams I experienced are homogeneous, ideally only including people from a small geographic region, with very similar sensibilities. Even inside a nation regional sensibilities can be a challenge.

thesumofall 11mo ago
Super sorry that these have been your experiences. Working for a very different company now, I again ended up in a highly international setting and - with good leadership - it can be incredibly enriching (the company is the result of several global mergers). Unfortunately, the way it works in many companies nowadays, the only situation where teams experience working with other countries are in settings that are imbalanced from the start (e.g., after offshoring)
- constantcrying 11mo ago
  Dealing with offshoring was very tedious, as you now have even more layers. Digital only communication, time differences, etc. But in person is also very bad. I never was part of a well functioning multi cultural team. And every homogenous team I have been in was well functioning. At this point I will actively seek out employment in teams where I am only among native speakers and as far as possible only among natives. >Super sorry What are you sorry about? I quit the job, partly because I couldn't stand having half a dozen different communication barriers. >it can be incredibly enriching I have never found a single positive aspect. None of the multi cultural teams have "enriched" me in any way, most often they made me dislike the other cultures.

thesumofall 11mo ago

Super sorry that these have been your experiences. Working for a very different company now, I again ended up in a highly international setting and - with good leadership - it can be incredibly enriching (the company is the result of several global mergers). Unfortunately, the way it works in many companies nowadays, the only situation where teams experience working with other countries are in settings that are imbalanced from the start (e.g., after offshoring)

constantcrying 11mo ago
Dealing with offshoring was very tedious, as you now have even more layers. Digital only communication, time differences, etc. But in person is also very bad. I never was part of a well functioning multi cultural team. And every homogenous team I have been in was well functioning. At this point I will actively seek out employment in teams where I am only among native speakers and as far as possible only among natives. >Super sorry What are you sorry about? I quit the job, partly because I couldn't stand having half a dozen different communication barriers. >it can be incredibly enriching I have never found a single positive aspect. None of the multi cultural teams have "enriched" me in any way, most often they made me dislike the other cultures.