Blue Origin reviews

3.2

46% would recommend to a friend

(1,210 total reviews)

Dave Limp

35% approve of CEO

40% positive business outlook

Blue Origin has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 1,210 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
4.0
Aug 20, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Most of the time I love working at Blue. My coworkers are generally great, the product is exciting, and the compensation is good. Almost all of the people I work with have 'Passion for the Mission' - feels good to be working towards something and not just generating profit for a MegaCorp. Work/life balance is generally good on my team. Obviously it's a big company, but I do see a lot of diversity where I'm at unlike another review a few down. Also feel like I have a lot of job security given how much the company is trying to accomplish and the fact we are funded by a billionaire.

Cons

Schedules are made up to appease the founder, then everybody is #shockedPikachuFace when we miss the dates by a mile. They want to magically increase rate (again, to appease founder) but aren't given all the resources they realistically need, so the onus falls on the lowest levels of management (and subsequently the people actually doing the work on the floor) to figure out how perform miracles, which - spoiler alert - nobody can do. It really drags morale down when you tell management over and over "we can't do that in that timeframe" and the response is essentially to "we'll make it work". No "we" won't. At least I'm not the one giving upper management the bad news, I guess. I think it all boils down to nobody can really give a billionaire bad news (even if they wanted to).... he does fund our paychecks and everything we work on... Lastly, I already had a job that had me coming in 4-5 days a week so I'm not impacted by the "Work from Work" situation, but I do feel for those that were swindled. For a company who's core idea is "for the Benefit of Earth", you'd think thousands of people needlessly commuting would register as contradictory to that.

1.0
May 16, 2022

The new lazy B

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good pay for no deliverables required. This place will hire a warm body with no skills just to have good head count metrics. Come one come all to the new lazy "B"

Cons

If you want to actually achieve something don't work here. Promoting those that are incompetent will not make teams flourish. Lot's of bureaucracy with a CEO and leadership team that is so arrogant they refuse to listen to the subject matter experts. When your CEO states "there is nothing you can teach me that I don't already know" is a huge red flag. Enough said! Jeff the CEO is running your tax write off into the ground!

5.0
Feb 25, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Amazing benefits Top of the line pay Tons of time off All holidays paid ++++ My supervisor and group are the best type of people I ever worked for

Cons

Navigating the aerospace industry as a woman can be difficult

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