Airbus Global Graduate Programme - Flight Physics Graduate Review

From my experience, the Airbus graduate is well structured rotational graduate that offers fantastic opportunities to explore the company and the many projects and areas of work that are taking place.
I was hired into the Flight Physics department which meant I started and ended my scheme here. But, you spend the 2 years rotating every 3 months. Although, the number and length of placements is flexible. It is your responsibility to organise your placements, but this provides a lot of freedom. Do bare in mind that some departments have mandatory placements, whereas I did not in Flight Physics.
You will also be able to have both and Out-of-Area (OOA) and Out-of-Business (OOB) placement. The OOA placement is where you still work for Airbus, but you work at another site for the period of the placement (yes - this means you can go abroad). The OOB is where you do a placement within another company, whilst still being paid for by Airbus.
The early careers team at Airbus also host multiple seminars, workshops and even a whole week of in-person sessions in Toulouse where they bring the whole global cohort together. This week happens once in each year of the scheme. All of this training is focussed on interpersonal and leadership skills.

Due to the rotational nature of the scheme, this is hard to define as it changes with every placement. However, due to this you are able to shape your scheme to try and upskill and expose yourself to the areas you want to. The freedom of placement selection was my favourite part of the scheme.

Again, this can vary from placement to placement. However, generally I would say that teams do there best to give you work that you can feasibly complete and meaningfully contribute to in your time with them.
Although, it is no secret that some teams value graduates more than others. So, do you research before joining a team and clearly outline what work they wish for you to do. Then asses whether that aligns with your expectations or not.

Airbus provides a yearly bonus that you would see on your payslip and this is related to the companies performance.
Airbus also has a fairly extensive portfolio of benefits ranging from car and bike schemes to health and dental insurance etc.

This again is heavily depends on how your scheme ends up structured and consequently what experience you gain.
On the other hand, many graduates do not know what they're final role will be once they finish the scheme. I was in this position and so it was difficult to tailor my placements to get relevant experience. However, I had the mentality of trying to experience things that I knew I could not do once I re-joined Flight Physics.

Yes

A brilliant graduate scheme that allows you to get so much exposure to the business.