Overall good, not as great as it used to be culture-wise, unsure of future treatment - Propulsion Engineer Blue Origin Employee Review

4.0
Dec 7, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

-Very interesting work -Great teammates -Free snacks and drinks -Good benefits except just decent 401k match

Cons

-Upper management has openly said they don't care about employee opinions -Despite his success, company culture has taken a hit under Limp - layoffs have already happened, and there's an ever-present feeling that layoffs will become yearly and that the company will cut numbers the moment they have what they need. Objectively, Limp has done a great job on deliverables and turning the company around, but a bit of that has been at the expense of employee wellbeing -Annoying policies on WFH; used to leave it up to manager discretion, but changed to super strict in-office policy with very limited flexibility - they have teams of full-time employees dedicated to tracking your attendance

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5.0
Jun 16, 2026
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Great place to work, I had a supportive manager which makes all the difference!

Cons

Only contract work is typically offered for my position and often we do not get converted.

1.0
Jun 14, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Free coffee and snacks and a slice of pizza when New Glenn launched and landed. They years before Blue gave everyone a 10K bonus for the New Shepard first human flight, they have since shut the entire program down.

Cons

Too many to list. The high performers get hit the hardest. I went 8 months without out missing a day, pick up other incomplete projects. After 8 years I received zero stock options which was promised at time of hire. When I left Blue had 383 people with Director in their title and had 40 VPs. Blue even posted a picture of the Chief Engineers on their Facebook page, they had 42! I was there for 8 years and my title never changed, every year they promised a promotion but they never come. I have 2 Masters degrees my Sr Manager had an A.A in arts, once he made Sr Director he was there for 6 months and moved to Andril. The pad repairs will take a year and they will loose the FCC bandwidth which will make them obsolete.

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