Is Blue Origin a good company to work for?

Blue Origin has an overall rating of 3.2 out of 5, based on over 1,374 reviews left anonymously by employees. This rating has increased by 1% over the last 12 months. 47% of employees would recommend working at Blue Origin to a friend and 41% have a positive outlook for the business. The best reviews about Blue Origin have been left by employees working as Intern , Propulsion Engineer II and Manufacturing Engineer II .

Does Blue Origin pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Blue Origin employees rate their compensation and benefits as 3.7 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Blue Origin. This rating has decreased by 2% over the last 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at Blue Origin?

47% of Blue Origin employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Blue Origin 3.1 out of 5 for work life balance, 2.9 for culture and values and 3.3 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Blue Origin?

Engineer (75) , Integration Engineer (36) , Manufacturing Engineer (34) , Intern (32) , Mechanical Engineer (32) , Software Engineer (31) , Test Engineer (30) , CNC Machinist (21) , Propulsion Engineer (20) , Technician (17) , Aerospace Engineer (16) , Propulsion Engineer II (14) , Senior Engineer (14) , Project Manager (12) , Systems Engineer (12)

What are the pros of working at Blue Origin according to real employee reviews?

"Pay is good if you're all about getting your soul sucked dry and not having a family life." ((in 127 reviews)); "Great people within your teams and teams you work for" ((in 123 reviews)); "Benefits are good." ((in 78 reviews)); "Most areas provide good work/life balance (especially if you take responsibility for setting those boundaries)." ((in 57 reviews)); "Blue has a great culture overall." ((in 45 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Blue Origin according to real employee reviews?

"Poor management brings down the company as a whole" ((in 99 reviews)); "Incredibly toxic behaviors from senior leadership" ((in 78 reviews)); "terrible upper management (though that's changing)" ((in 41 reviews)); "Floor supervisors try but upper managers have no clue." ((in 31 reviews)); "Long hours are the norm" ((in 21 reviews))

What are employees saying about Blue Origin layoffs in 2026?

Explore Glassdoor’s employee reviews to understand what current and former employees are saying about Blue Origin layoffs and their outlook for job security at Blue Origin in 2026.

What Blue Origin locations have received the highest employee ratings?

Van Horn , Cape Canaveral , Huntsville

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Blue Origin reviews

3.2

47% would recommend to a friend

(1,200 total reviews)

Dave Limp

34% approve of CEO

41% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

3.7

Compensation and benefits

3.5

Diversity & inclusion

3.3

Career opportunities

3.1

Work/Life balance

2.9

Culture & values

2.2

Senior management

Blue Origin has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 1,200 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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Reviews by job title

1K reviews

2.0

Mar 17, 2024

Building a road to space with DEI and fairy dust

Technician

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Some of the smartest and best folks I've ever been around. Pretty good benefits and above average pay.

Cons

When the previous CEO was there, he built a martini glass shaped org structure loaded with dead weight middle management positions and a good old boy network of retread vice presidents. It is almost impossible to explain the painful journey of trying to transition from development to production, they hired hundreds of production analysts-project managers -planners and quality people. This made everything slow to a crawl for almost 4 years. The same time frame they lowered the hiring bar,implimented DEI policies and changed the priority of work to value how you do something rather than what you do. This enabled a culture of buzzwords and brownnosers that didn't care about producing anything as long as they collected a paycheck. The new CEO has the task of cleaning up the mess, cutting heads and salaries while still keeping the company killing DEI policies.

2.0

Jul 16, 2022

World’s Most Bureaucratic Private Space Company

Test engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Good pay for experienced employees. Note entry level engineers will find the stocks and salaries at other companies more competitive. Decent work life balance: 45 - 50 hours a week and on average for most employees. Highly talented lower level employee base. Good training programs. Great career broadening opportunities.

Cons

Senior and executive leadership lacks empathy, technical competency, strategic vision, and ability to deliver results. Company is very far behind many other competitors, including other traditional aerospace companies Stocks are worthless and are used as a false recruiting tactic. Company has a very bureaucratic and inefficient organization structure. The company is very top heavy. There are issues with toxicity and integrity within the company.

1.0

Dec 22, 2020

Look Elsewhere

Executive team leader

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Employees actually care about the organization.

Cons

Leadership is disconnected from day to day operations. Executive leadership only concern is job security versus making needed operational advancement.

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