Blue Origin reviews

3.2

46% would recommend to a friend

(1,209 total reviews)

Dave Limp

35% approve of CEO

40% positive business outlook

Blue Origin has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 1,209 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
Jul 9, 2021

It's gonna crash!!!

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Cool stuff - vision is cutting edge, although not achievable in the lifetime of 20 generations!! - Employees play a part in space technology.

Cons

- Dismal leadership focused on becoming "big aero." - Wasting Bezos' money - he sells millions of shares of Amazon to fund a pipe dream. Use the money to solve world peace, or hunger. - Co-workers back stab you - say one thing to you, then follow a completely different path. - Turnover in the 20%+ range!! That only happens in Venezuela and Cuba. - CEO claims he's the "smartest person in the company" and therefore should make all the decisions. Hmmm, so much for building "bench strength."

1.0
Jul 9, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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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.

2.0
Jul 9, 2021

Run away.

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Work with extremely intelligent team members who are the best of the best. That's it.

Cons

- Old school mentality. Zero progression or forward thinking. - Prides itself on being "inclusive and diverse" when its very, very far from that. Highly concerning that every leader here is a white male. - Employee voices mean NOTHING. We speak on issues and offer solutions but management is unwilling to make any improvements. - No hybrid or flex schedule - Growth + pay raise is near to impossible. - TERRIBLE LEADERSHIP. Not only with CEO + Board, but also department leadership. Overall a disaster, completely out of touch and offer no support. - Work life balance... what's that? - Processes... what's that? - Favoritism is a real thing here. They pick and choose when they want to follow a process or not. - Ambiguity is also, a real thing here. - Actually ask employees to write positive reviews on glassdoor to increase their score. -Don't drink the Kool-Aid. We all do in the beginning but quickly figure out the Kool-Aid is garbage.

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