Blue Origin reviews

A company that starts off as R&D and pivots to safety critical has to learn how to develop its processes to be robust. Blue borrows heavily from highly refined aviation processes, but culture change is challenging.

Too much disorganization. Roles & responsibilities continue to be insufficiently defined. In spite of a "gradatim ferociter" motto and a "build the company that builds rockets" mantra, in fact program funding determines everything so there is not enough coordination or innovation happening in the engineering across the company. Corporate leadership is out of tune with their employees, doesn't seem to care what employees think, and overrides and micromanages decisions. They have an old school mentality in spite of proclaiming they are new school. They fail to respect the expertise of their own experts. There is a culture of needing to take too many decisions to the top, when engineers and mid-level leaders could have made a decision and executed much more quickly.