Blue Origin reviews

3.2

47% would recommend to a friend

(1,199 total reviews)

Dave Limp

34% approve of CEO

41% positive business outlook

Blue Origin has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 1,199 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Blue Origin employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Aerospace & Defense industry (3.6 stars).

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1K reviews
2.0
Oct 30, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- You're at a company doing big things - launching people is no joke! New Glenn, delayed as it is, has solid people working very cool projects. - There are many terrific people working here. - Once established, it is easy to move around the company and find a home. Between NS, NG and ADP, there are tons of opportunities to see and do many different things. - With Jeff getting more involved recently, I'm more optimistic about Blue's future than I have been in a while. - If you find a specific "home" in Blue, the work can be rewarding enough on its own that you can persevere through the BS. That said, if you're just starting out, and/or expect the company to be exciting on its own, Blue is not the place.

Cons

- Dead weight is allowed to stick around. This lowers morale and the performance bar for everyone. - Management is incredibly out-of-touch with individual contributors. - When management does hear feedback, reactions are very often too-little too-late (ie after the company has been bleeding staff for years, they have finally reacted by increasing 401K match one percentage point and adding pet insurance) - Obsession with process, corporate structure and bureaucracy has caused many people to feel that they have lost ownership of their work. This leads to slower, lower quality work with little motivation to go above and beyond. - Human flight certification is being used as an excuse to stifle engineering improvements on New Shepard. While the vehicle is generally robust, so many small changes could massively increase our turnaround and overhead work scope. - Recruiters are slow to contact candidates and even slower to extend offers. It is critical that they strike while the iron is hot to improve candidate yield.

1.0
Jul 9, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

-As many have said previously, the talent here is amazing and if you're lucky your team can be a fun group (again, if you're lucky)

Cons

- The upper leadership of the company has no clue what they are doing and its obvious, a majority of them are from Honeywell. We all assume once Bob became CEO he just invited all his buddies to come over too, bad choice. Now Blue is run like a slow corporate aero company when really it could be a fast paced fun place to be. - This is even more exemplified by the fact that they (the execs) do not listen to one word the employees say. If you have an opinion they will be glad to setup a chat, a meeting, a forum, anything. But whatever is said is merely documented and swept under the rug. -Although a large portion of the industry has shifted to a flexible WFH schedule, Blue has decided to force everyone back even with the delta variant spiking right now. This has caused a large portion of the workforce to revolt and the search for a new job has begun for many, or they have already left. - Our PR is at an all time low and the execs seem to be doing anything and everything they can to make it worse. Reddit is a fun read until you realize it's the company you work at that is getting hammered in the comment section. -Staffing is 1/3 of what it should be to actually output the results they ask for. This is even more daunting when a large majority of staff are contractors that have a finite time at Blue. The brain drain is real and we need help now, not down the road. - Attrition, its very bad. I'll leave it at that. - Pay raises do not match the cost of living increases in the Seattle area. I was even told my a manager once "the only way to get a good bump here is to leave and come back in 6 months". Really sad to see they don't value the workers salary here. - There are countless other small issues that I could go on about but I'll leave it at this. It's sad to see what Blue has become from where it was when I started. Old Blue was a great place. It was slow, but fun. New Blue, the one Bob is running, its depressing to say the least.

1.0
Jun 23, 2021

Idea factory more than anything else

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

-Lots of talented individuals to work with

Cons

-Incredibly toxic behaviors from senior leadership - dismissive, deceitful, condescending -DEI is only something to talk about, not implement -Extremely rigid office-centric environment -Poor overall compensation package when compared to other companies in the region -Inability to execute on even simple project milestones -Uses Amazon leadership principles as weapons to talk-down to the staff -Devastatingly high rate of attrition contributing to “culture rot”

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