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      Blue Origin

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      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

      Ratings by demographic groups

      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
      3.0
      Mar 25, 2020

      Great People and Overall goal - needs better top tier leadership

      Integration engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Overtime, Rockets, People (Not leadership), Time to learn, and career growth

      Cons

      Bad decision making by leaders. The welfare of employees doesn’t seem to be at their best interest. Lack of transparency from top tier leaders. Competition and incentives could be better more competitive.

      3.0
      Dec 7, 2019

      Incentives

      Senior engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Great resources and budgets Exciting products and missions Nice facilities Very few low performers Fun culture and diversity Coffee and snacks

      Cons

      Minimal incentive to exceed at the working level Hiring for the wrong job types New or Upgraded systems are being pushed out quickly and have many bugs Lots of turnover in Engineering Upper Management is separated from ICs

      4.0
      Nov 8, 2019

      Just Getting Started

      Systems engineer ii
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      My career has lasted just a few years but I have had the opportunity to work with NASA, a heritage contractor, a university, and another newspace company, none of which can really hold a candle to Blue. This is by far the most interesting place I have worked. Regardless of what happens with NASA or SpaceX, Blue is working on several programs that are absolutely critical to the future of human spaceflight. Programs that I don't see other companies and organizations (including SpaceX) pursuing. Talking to my coworkers who have been here since the beginning of the company, it amazes me how much Blue has been able to reinvent itself over the years. I am confident that despite the current adversity, we will pull through.

      Cons

      Having infinite money from Jeff does not mean that we have infinite ability to solve our problems. The Kent facility is far past capacity. Right now trying to build BE-4 and New Glenn is like trying to run an auto factory with a high school machine shop. The system is highly stressed as are a lot of the people who work on it. That said, things should drastically improved once production activities are moved to Huntsville and the Cape. In addition to facilities, the company has a hard time with staffing. The recruiting process is excessively tedious compared to most other companies (multiple on site interviews) and there just isn't enough bandwidth to sift through the reems of applications.

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