Blue Origin reviews

Management is empire building. Management shows no empathy to the workforce very hostile work environment. Incomplete work instructions and not well thought out. Management is totally self centered.

Some managers who can make a really great chart with meaningless data are driving some really bad business decisions, especially in Operations sectors of the company. They honestly likely feel like they are helping but have no foresight as to what elements of these processes worked successfully, were just wasteful and others necessary (for certification) but also wasteful. I have no doubt both the positive and negative reviews on Glassdoor are true. Blue Origin's mission is truly extraordinary. Some good advice I can give to candidates further along the hiring process: Ask the hiring manager about rates of retention in their direct organization, ask if you are replacing anyone, ask if you can interview multiple employees if you do not get an interviewee lunch. I didn't listen to the red flags when I got hired on because I really wanted to work in the space sector and for Blue Origin, and that is on me. For example, when I asked my manager what his biggest challenges were for this year during the interviewee process he said "hiring people who do what they say they can do". Two weeks in, my manager is badmouthing previous employees for their current problems without looking inward. Keep in mind, these employees were not fired, but either reassigned or got a promotion elsewhere in the company. After a few months, it became clear they wanted "yes" men who could increase their bonuses for the short term but bad for long term. This is in spite of shared concerns you raise about quality of product and ultimately longer schedule delays to rework defects or in some cases, scrapped parts that already had about 3-6 months of work put into them. Ultimately I left for ethical reasons a little under a year of employment. I could probably have tried to stick out the year and move elsewhere in the company, but I wasn't confident enough with the exponential increase of executive management layers that this would not spread to other areas of Blue.