Blue Origin reviews

My comments are mostly related to Lunar Transportation, however, other groups at Blue Origin More or less suffer from the same issues: 1- There seems to be a mismatch between the roles and expertise of some team leaders. In the last year, level 2 or level 3 engineers, that are still in their learning period have been promoted to engineering managers. Unfortunately, these people are too incompetent from the technical perspective to be able to manage a project, and from time to time this lack of competency hurts the flow of a project. 2- The team atmosphere can be challenging. It often feels highly politicized, which can hinder collaboration and open communication. 3- Blue Origin is full of arrogant people who think they are developing state-of-the-art technology. However, their method and standard of development are less than cheap commercial products. 4- Just build a few years of space industry experience and bounce, this place is bogus.

HR is not about the people but the numbers. - HR requires a minimum percentage of people be put into the low performance trends. This is hard when the process is poor and small teams are high performing. - If you need a remote work agreement HR is all about the business aspect and not the human (i.e. when it’s obvious your in a family situation that temporarily needs to be remote HR focuses on the business case even when your team is fully remote and there is no impact) - There is no recommendation for number of years in a level. This causes employees to expect promotions before they are ready and causes people to then be promoted before they are ready. All this causes reaching the ceiling too quickly, burnout, frustration on the employee and management, and essentially leads to minimal ways out because other companies have expectations in years of experience.