Air Liquide Employee Reviews & Ratings

There seems to be a shortage of man-power in certain areas. I would like to see a training program where new employees are fully trained before being placed in the work environment, versus on the job training.

Strictly following procedure within our division

Nothing as such all good

Sometimes there are long and complex decision paths. Air Liquide has a very conservative way of thinking, decisions aren't made fast enough and or are revoked completely. The business is shareholder driven, you have a lot of cost-cutting-programs and the upper management in some countries lose the focus on talent management and sustainable development.

Poorly compensated and toxic culture

Too many new initiatives from management without allocating adequate resources.

It should be user friendly for all

Terrible work environment, no communication and colaboration.

Frequent promises and no action or follow through. Poor decisions by upper management and some make you scratch your head an say "what were they thinking?"

Pay could be better and there are few opportunities to advance.It is a small subsidiary that does not do the products that make the most of the money for the parent company, so there is not a lot of support from corporate.

Micro managment can be political at times

systems are ancient and need updates

Many of the leaders lack integrity and experience with subject and people. HR lacks integrity and knowledge. Company rules by chaos. Company (HR) appears to be cleaning house of those near retirement (to make financial numbers) Poor safety and poor safety leader.

Its difficult to get an entry level role.

Fair pay and compensation across all levels

Not really a con, but mobility is important to exploit max potential

Decision making Globally cultural Women retention

Salary is way lower than average in the market.

Heavy workload, lousy management, lack of standardisation

No as much investment in training

Lack of coorperation across function

Organization runs very lean, and can be slow with making decisions.

Starting salary is just over the minimum wage! Its very, very, low. Hence any real talent tends to leave after a couple of years max. People on the older contracts earn nearly twice as much as new workers for the same role. This causes division. Long term managers are set in their ways, on older contracts, and are unwilling to address real issues, hence, the workplace can be toxic somtimes. Health and safety matters and dosent matter, its a tick the box excersise used to cover certian managers, faked, and used to bully employees when needed. No healthcare, No pension.

- Vacation policy is restricting. 15 days for 0-9 years, 20 days for 10-19 years, 25 days for 20+ years of company service. Days don't roll over year to year - Compensation doesn't always meet market conditions. No major increases above inflation since covid began

Unexperienced management, no extra time recovery policy

Salaries are not that high.

Upper management hard to deal with somtimes

The pay is very low and not according to market. You have to be into the politics and play your part in order to get ahead. The yearly performance reviews are terrible and upper management decides your reviews, which is how they keep the bonuses low for the employee, bonuses are very low not unless you are director or higher and yearly increase are very low to none.

Absolutely narrow career channel in R&D Asia. Researchers are being hired to handle specific projects and there is no big vision for his/her career. Unexpectedly huge turn over rate. HR and GMs avoid the employees’s concern over career growth. Very disappointed with the world renowned MNC. Employees end up doing the same job even after years of experience. No change in scope of responsibility.

Micro management Long working hours

They start you out at $32-$35/hr and you have to fight for every penny, they have reduced shifts to one-man shifts, yes, you heard that right. They fill the vacancies they created with contract operators, Individuals who are highly qualified and in need of a job or completely underqualified which comes with some challenges. The qualified operators love the atmosphere but cannot stay due to the pay rate and of course they move on. Meanwhile, the underqualified "operators" stay and offer no real help in the long term. It is very unfortunate.

if you aim for work-life balance, then this is not for you. sometimes the work can be physically and mentally challenging, should the plant equipments failed.

Salary and general compensation and carreer plan

Nothing to discuss on this

Random Lack of processes Bad Leadership No career path

Over bearing supervision and micro management

Limited availability for job promotions

Terrible manager, who has been recently hired just because of connections, no management skills whatsoever. Manager somehow always is "too busy for you" Manager bad mouthing/blaming employees all the time. Frustrated team members No proper onboarding or any kind of support for newcomers. Just some silly powerpoint slideshows and that's it! You have to figure out everything on your OWN! Not a diverse work environment, terrible place for an expat. Left before 6 months.

- work overloaded - poor transparency - lack career grow

lack of resources to finish tasks

onboarding needs adjustments lots of bugs on the property

Lower pay than other chemical industries

Safety was not a priority even though they company acted like it was.

Promotion is difficult due less employees turn over

average employer non existent culture

Very low income for a lot of work

Heavy workload Average or low than Average salary level

1) Because of the nationwide and international reach of the company, expect to do a lot of traveling or relocation throughout your career unless you plan to stay in a local job without big advancements. Some positions can overwork you due to poor resource management, or if you're a go-getter, you can become one of the "super-performers" in the company, ie those that are hard workers receive more work (which isn't bad if you're looking to move up and get picked for bigger, better jobs, but not great for work-life balance). 2) Lack of follow up on action items from certain groups is still common in the company, no accountability if those groups don't follow through. 3) Since centralizing many corporate function in Houston, a lot of responsibilities have been pushed to the already overwhelmed operation sites. Corporate doesn't have a clue what's going on in satellite operations. Managers are expected to know and stay on top of so much more corporate details on top of running the operation. 4) Some newer employees have come in wanting to make changes, and some become disgruntled after not getting feedback or not seeing the changes as fast as they hoped for. It's a large company afterall, and many old-timers are used to the way work processes go. Unless we get upper management push, and then they monetarily incentivize the rest of the employees to push for change, it's hard to make certain changes.

Management are so toxic! Avoid! Management have silent quitted

only commute for me was long