Blue Origin reviews

I can't explain how poor the HR organization is at Blue Origin. Their support is non existent but they maintain an iron grip on processes that make no sense. They use fear and retaliation as a mechanism for any criticism of their work. Most of the good members of that team have left leaving the toxic aftermath in its place.

- Dead weight is allowed to stick around. This lowers morale and the performance bar for everyone. - Management is incredibly out-of-touch with individual contributors. - When management does hear feedback, reactions are very often too-little too-late (ie after the company has been bleeding staff for years, they have finally reacted by increasing 401K match one percentage point and adding pet insurance) - Obsession with process, corporate structure and bureaucracy has caused many people to feel that they have lost ownership of their work. This leads to slower, lower quality work with little motivation to go above and beyond. - Human flight certification is being used as an excuse to stifle engineering improvements on New Shepard. While the vehicle is generally robust, so many small changes could massively increase our turnaround and overhead work scope. - Recruiters are slow to contact candidates and even slower to extend offers. It is critical that they strike while the iron is hot to improve candidate yield.