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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2.0
Jan 10, 2021

becoming like Boeing

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Pros

great cocktail party job - its fun to say you work at a rocket company

Cons

20 years since founding and hasn't made it to orbit

2.0
Jul 30, 2019

Clueless "leadership" riding the biggest gravy train in the world

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Occasionally you can learn some great new technology (some forward-looking software people do still exist here). But it's rare. I was very impressed by how impressed some folks were with themselves -- hmmm...is that a pro or a con?

Cons

the place is chock-full of technology troglodytes who are experts at burrowing up the right places. We somehow manage to procure the worst tools and systems for the company to use... there are some things in use at the company that defy common sense. I sometimes wonder if there is a nice little cottage industry of kickbacks with the various vendors and contracting companies who serve up this junk. I can't explain it any other way. (Jeff! look into it). I feel sorry for most of the software engineers who are pulled into mind-numbing projects of trying to integrate dumb system 1 with dumb system 2. There is an endless number of such projects and engineers are constantly leaving to better pastures because of this. Shoe-shining and yes-manning will send you places at Blue. Disagree with a thin-skinned and immature manager and you might as well be carrying your box out the door. Management that is quick to apply pressure but slow to reward is mediocre at best.

1.0
Jul 3, 2019

Go Somewhere Else

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Pros

Exciting work and projects (if you can ignore the cons). Lots of smart people. Dogs come to work. Snacks.

Cons

The life has left this place. It’s depressinng to work here and the leaders that have come on board since Rob Meyerson have created a culture and environment that might look great from the outside and from the words they say but the reality is not good. At all. Company doesn’t care about it’s employees, so many manager egos to please that’s all you end up doing instead of actually making progress with the hardware.

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