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
3.0
Jul 7, 2021

Great Ideas, Bad Leadership

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Technical, motivated team members working towards very ambitious goals for space exploration

Cons

Senior leadership seems disconnected from the reality of the business goals, in particular technical approach to developing new products and staffing level.

2.0
Jul 1, 2021

Amazing vision, and nothing else.

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Work on orbital launch vehicles and manned spacecraft, with decades of projects planned well into the future!

Cons

*No hybrid WFH option, and no adjustment in pay to reflect the horrific Seattle area housing market. Archaic office-centric culture of misery and failure. Huge attrition due to lack of ability to evolve with the industry, resulting in further schedule slips and brain drain. *Worst offices most have encountered in their decades long careers (literally work in a circus tent loaded with incredibly small desks). *Horifically bad tools and processes, so much so that forward progress is impossible. No willingness to improve. "Go back to go forward mentality" is really just going back, and making going forward impossible. *Non-functional/technical figurehead style CEO and executive board, that makes mistake after mistake resulting in complete failure on all fronts, and is unwilling to listen to employees to make changes and improve the company. *Poor opportunities for advancement, minimal pay raises, very limited promotions (no pay raise until you threaten to quit, loyalty not rewarded). *Empty statements of support for diversity and inclusion, while embracing archaic policies of exclusion. *Brainwashing tactics to mask failure, "The circus tent is a visionary solution to our office capacity problem!" Blue is in a very bad spot right now, and likely won't change until the figurehead style executive board is eliminated and replaced with Jeffrey Bezos himself. Attrition and depression are rampant.

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