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
Jul 23, 2025

Okay

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Friendly co workers an office space

Cons

Too much pressure always over work

1.0
Jul 16, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

* Clean-ish office * Slightly above average salary

Cons

* UNTRUSTWORTHY, DECEITFUL MANAGEMENT * Employees are treated like contractors * CEO knows NOTHING about aerospace tech/engineering * Rampant incompetence among C-levels * Excessive work loads on high performers to compensate for low performers * No incentives whatsoever for anyone below Sr rank * HR exists only to enforce executive orders and protect budgets * Bad WLB in general * No stability or meaningful strategy * Project planning is a free-for-all devoid of factual analysis * KPIs that encourage groups to work at cross-purposes * Lack of project strategy or milestone definitions * Rampant nepotism * Perpetual re-orgs and structure changes * Stack ranking and no-warning RIFs * Godawful & toxic overall employee community

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