Mechanical Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Blue Origin with 3.3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 52% positive. To compare, the company-average is 51.4% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Mechanical Engineer roles take an average of 36 days to get hired, when considering 21 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Blue Origin overall takes an average of 38 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Blue Origin as a Mechanical Engineer according to 21 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 25%
One on one interview: 18%
Group panel interview: 15%
Presentation: 13%
Skills test: 13%
Background check: 10%
Personality test: 3%
Drug test: 2%
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step one - technical phone screen, 30 minutes step two - essay detailing why you are interested in humans living in space + presentation on two projects step three - present presentation to a panel for a 3-4 hour long interview. technical questions at the end of this.
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Question 1
stress strain relationship, mechanics of materials knowledge, why blue origin
Remote interview which began with a 1hr presentation that I generated and gave to a panel of 6-7 engineers. Post presentation I had 1 on 1 interviews for 30 minutes with 4 senior engineers.
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Question 1
Technical question on fracture mechanics - asked me to walk them through a da-dN curve and what the different portions of the curve meant and how the curves would look different for different materials
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Blue Origin (Kent, WA) in Oct 2025
Interview
I had two rounds of interviews before the last panel interview which was 3 hours long. First meeting was with a recruiter and was behavioral, then an interview with same recruiter with some slight behavioral question but mostly behavioral again, last 3 back to back interview for a panel interview.
One technical interview, one technical presentation and 4 interviews with people who watched the presentation. Asked a variety of technical or situational based and soft skills questions. Interviewers were very knowledgeable and asked lots of follow up questions based off my presentation.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe the stress strain curve of two different materials