Building a road to space with DEI and fairy dust - Technician Blue Origin Employee Review

2.0
Mar 17, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Some of the smartest and best folks I've ever been around. Pretty good benefits and above average pay.

Cons

When the previous CEO was there, he built a martini glass shaped org structure loaded with dead weight middle management positions and a good old boy network of retread vice presidents. It is almost impossible to explain the painful journey of trying to transition from development to production, they hired hundreds of production analysts-project managers -planners and quality people. This made everything slow to a crawl for almost 4 years. The same time frame they lowered the hiring bar,implimented DEI policies and changed the priority of work to value how you do something rather than what you do. This enabled a culture of buzzwords and brownnosers that didn't care about producing anything as long as they collected a paycheck. The new CEO has the task of cleaning up the mess, cutting heads and salaries while still keeping the company killing DEI policies.

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5.0
Jun 3, 2026
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Pros

Good team to work with. No complaints.

Cons

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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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