Blue Origin reviews

3.2

46% would recommend to a friend

(1,212 total reviews)

Dave Limp

34% approve of CEO

40% positive business outlook

Blue Origin has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 1,212 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
4.0
Mar 4, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

I work with the smartest people I've ever met solving really hard problems. Live rocket engine hotfire streams. You can bring your dog to work. Great work culture - I genuinely like the people I work with.

Cons

Schedule pressure means that work life balance suffers at times. Lack of standardization and communication across business units sometimes leads to ambiguity.

1.0
Mar 3, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good pay, company could have been great at one point

Cons

-Do-ers are shunned for not sharing their workload and “effectively using other people” - Management gets very insecure when their people excel and outshine them - People expect better snacks, complain about broken down coffee machines, go for long walks, hardly work, and act entitled- WE ARE HERE TO LAUNCH ROCKETS -Blue has so many processes it has processed itself out of progress. All it does is make more processes.

1.0
Mar 3, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Pay is good. For those who really don’t like to work, this place is for you.

Cons

There are so many power grabs; Structured like a huge mega big aerospace company; Motivation among employees is lacking; People who get things done, The “do-ers”, are criticized for not sharing work or “effectively using other people”; Actual “working time” people put in is minimal-they go for strolls, feel entitled to better snack stations, and complain about coffee machine breakdowns…WE ARE HERE TO LAUNCH ROCKETS; Blue hires so many systems engineers and “process people” from “process companies” that it literally processed progress out. People who are passionate, driven, “go-getters,” and motivated to get to launch are squashed here. Managers are all about “playing the game” (the hierarchy game) So sad :-( The company could be great, but management would never allow it.

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