Decent place to work - Engineer Blue Origin Employee Review

4.0
Sep 10, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Exciting technologies Well funded for capital projects

Cons

Pay isn't commensurate with the level of skill and knowledge require to work here. They say they benchmark to other companies but most other companies don't do such complicated work with so little staffing. So we should be getting paid well above "the market." Recently many people are realizing this and leaving for better pay and more advancement opportunities. Technical abilities of recent hires (past 2 years) aren't up to the standards they were at before. Less experienced and less capable people are being hired and slowing the company down. Little to no professional development opportunities. Very hard to change roles if you work on anything important.

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Pros

Good team to work with. No complaints.

Cons

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1.0
Jun 14, 2026
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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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