You're working at "Space Amazon" - Mechanical Engineer Blue Origin Employee Review

1.0
Feb 3, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Working on space vehicles Lots of smart people Pays well

Cons

Major changes come with no warning. In the 1.5 years I've been here, there have been two rounds of layoffs. An average of one person left my group every other month. Layoffs given via zoom meetings - "everyone check your email in an hour to see if you've been laid off". Felt like some kind of intimidation tactic. Leadership felt incredibly disingenuous. We are getting yelled at to work faster, but not given any stock options (they used to then stopped, told us stocks were a "lottery ticket" and not to expect anything). "X program is speeding up" a few months later it's cancelled, everyone laid off. Work sites would be closed down with no notice. People asked to move everything with no notice.

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5.0
Jun 3, 2026
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Pros

Good team to work with. No complaints.

Cons

No cons at this point.

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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