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      Blue Origin

      Engaged Employer

      Blue Origin reviews

      3.2

      46% would recommend to a friend

      (1,209 total reviews)

      Dave Limp

      35% approve of CEO

      40% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      3.7

      Compensation and benefits

      3.5

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.3

      Career opportunities

      3.1

      Work/Life balance

      2.8

      Culture & values

      2.2

      Senior management

      Blue Origin has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 1,209 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Blue Origin employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Aerospace & Defense industry (3.6 stars).

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      1K reviews
      1.0
      Jan 23, 2020

      Entrepreneurial spirit is lost

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      - Decent offices - You will get a chance to work with relevant technologies and will probably learn a lot

      Cons

      * The amount of money wasted and brainless decisions I have seen since being here is disguising * Boomer out of touch management * Good principals, they are just not executed on.

      4.0
      Jan 1, 2020

      Lots of opportunity and chaos

      Propulsion engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      By far the the best thing about Blue are the fellow engineers. There are so many brilliant people to learn from and befriend. The chaos at Blue is an opportunity. Options include: -Change career paths and learn a new skill all while being paid! Learning is the main reason this is a 4-star review. -Identify a missing element in the company and create your own department. -Start a technical focus group. -Get funding to attend a conference or obtain special training in a skills useful to the company. -Propose a new product/invention that is useful to the mission and obtain funding to develop it. -Work 40 hours a week (if you want). -A good amount of free beer and social events. In short, if you look at the company progress as a whole you may be disappointed at Blue. If you are entrepreneurial there are many opportunities to learn and experiment here on the individual level. That, and all the lifelong friends I have made, are why I recommend it.

      Cons

      -The company is bad at getting things done and frankly is not a world class rocket builder (right now). Lots of risk aversion and bureaucracy. -A good cohort of 'diversity warriors' distracting from the mission. -Management seems to be more interested in designing some convoluted process they can put on their resume than actually getting things done. Management does not hold people accountable or motivate (by carrot or stick) action. -There are weird power structures and arrogance. A lot of management does not listen to 'common engineers' but will heartily agree if an 'anointed one' says that same thing. -Management is mostly 'professional managers' with MBAs from the right schools or from traditional aerospace. -Lots of annoying 'cover-my-ass' big company safety training and rules. -Enterprise software is a mess. 100 different systems none of which work well or talk to each other. -Annuals raises average 3%. If you get a promotion it may only be 5%.

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