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
1.0
Jul 16, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

* Clean-ish office * Slightly above average salary

Cons

* UNTRUSTWORTHY, DECEITFUL MANAGEMENT * Employees are treated like contractors * CEO knows NOTHING about aerospace tech/engineering * Rampant incompetence among C-levels * Excessive work loads on high performers to compensate for low performers * No incentives whatsoever for anyone below Sr rank * HR exists only to enforce executive orders and protect budgets * Bad WLB in general * No stability or meaningful strategy * Project planning is a free-for-all devoid of factual analysis * KPIs that encourage groups to work at cross-purposes * Lack of project strategy or milestone definitions * Rampant nepotism * Perpetual re-orgs and structure changes * Stack ranking and no-warning RIFs * Godawful & toxic overall employee community

5.0
Jul 15, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Pay was decent. Benefits good. Colleagues were great.

Cons

Disorganized and trying to function without a real charter or goal post. Management not held accountable. Leadership not interested in empowering people but is interested in managing with fear. New mandate that every team has to have a low performer, at least one, that gets fired, which leads to terrible morale and damages any attempt at collaboration. The company would rather rule with a stick instead of a carrot. The new 50-hour workweek norm really means 60.

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