Blue Origin reviews

Transition from R&D house to sustainable business has difficult. Senior Management layers are almost entirely external hires who don't understand the culture that enabled early success. Becoming process driven to the point of paralysis for some business units. Values Big Tech talent but pays Big Aero salaries, making it very uncompetitive in the Seattle area. Management very very slow to react to concerning employee feedback on benefits, leadership, and work structure. Initial slow response to Covid crisis alienated a lot of people.

Senior leadership (especially the COO and his cronies) are impotent and over the last couple years have built a toxic environment that does not foster original thought, innovation, or the pursuit of real success. Instead it only uses the stick to motivate people and sacrifices great people to make a point, but never teaches what that point is. Hence why Blue Origin did not break 10 million viewers for a launch of astronauts to the ISS this past weekend. Due to the toxic environment, the company works in silos where teams and team members do not share solutions, information or work well together to accomplish team or company goals. This leads to overly complicated designs and solutions or policies to be created that only work in a narrow set of circumstances. Aside from the Blue Moon initiative and team, the other programs are chasing solutions that are not innovative or advancing aerospace technology in any meaningful way, most of which do not even work after years of development. There has been a mass exodus of many intelligent, high performing people talent leaving for other companies over the last 2 years, including myself.