Is Blue Origin a good company to work for?

Blue Origin has an overall rating of 3.2 out of 5, based on over 1,387 reviews left anonymously by employees. This rating has increased by 1% over the last 12 months. 46% of employees would recommend working at Blue Origin to a friend and 40% have a positive outlook for the business. The best reviews about Blue Origin have been left by employees working as Intern , Propulsion Engineer II and Manufacturing Engineer II .

Does Blue Origin pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Blue Origin employees rate their compensation and benefits as 3.7 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Blue Origin. This rating has decreased by 3% over the last 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at Blue Origin?

46% of Blue Origin employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Blue Origin 3.1 out of 5 for work life balance, 2.8 for culture and values and 3.3 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Blue Origin?

Engineer (76) , Integration Engineer (36) , Manufacturing Engineer (34) , Mechanical Engineer (34) , Intern (32) , Software Engineer (31) , Test Engineer (30) , CNC Machinist (21) , Propulsion Engineer (20) , Technician (17) , Aerospace Engineer (16) , Propulsion Engineer II (14) , Senior Engineer (14) , Project Manager (13) , Manager (12)

What are the pros of working at Blue Origin according to real employee reviews?

"Pay is good if you're all about getting your soul sucked dry and not having a family life." ((in 139 reviews)); "Great people within your teams and teams you work for" ((in 116 reviews)); "Benefits are good." ((in 80 reviews)); "Most areas provide good work/life balance (especially if you take responsibility for setting those boundaries)." ((in 57 reviews)); "Blue has a great culture overall." ((in 50 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Blue Origin according to real employee reviews?

"Poor management brings down the company as a whole" ((in 102 reviews)); "Incredibly toxic behaviors from senior leadership" ((in 75 reviews)); "terrible upper management (though that's changing)" ((in 43 reviews)); "Floor supervisors try but upper managers have no clue." ((in 33 reviews)); "Long hours are the norm" ((in 26 reviews))

What are employees saying about Blue Origin layoffs in 2026?

Explore Glassdoor’s employee reviews to understand what current and former employees are saying about Blue Origin layoffs and their outlook for job security at Blue Origin in 2026.

What are the top reviewed Blue Origin locations?

Kent , Merritt Island , Huntsville , Seattle , Cape Canaveral , Van Horn , Renton , Denver , Los Angeles , Phoenix , Reston , El Segundo , Titusville , Washington , Orlando , Melbourne , New York , Austin , Longmont , Atlanta , Highlands Ranch , Kennedy Sp Ct , Port St Lucie , Meritt Island , American Fork , Chicago , Maine , Florida , Milwaukee , Flint

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3.2

46% would recommend to a friend

(1,212 total reviews)

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34% approve of CEO

40% positive business outlook

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Blue Origin has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 1,212 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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2.0

Nov 14, 2023

Inspiring mission, but HR is actively working against you

Systems engineer

Recommend

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Pros

- Inspiring products and mission - High performing teams - Managers seem to like their jobs --> positive work culture

Cons

- Several programs are behind schedule --> stressful work environment - Programs are consistently re-organized - Senior Management does not listen to employee feedback - Human Resources is actively working against you. .. example (1): HR created a new tenure requirement to achieve promotion. They did this DURING the promotion cycle and made it "for management eyes only". Then they did not consistently apply the rules of their own (new) tenure requirement. The result was a lot of wasted effort and failed promises. .. example (2): HR also resets the tenure requirement when you take a on a new role. Combining this with the constant program re-orgs, it is very difficult to grow your career at this company. They actively funnel you into a highly constrained role with little opportunity for advancement.

3.0

Nov 10, 2023

Amazon but with no real leadership

Enterprise technology

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Goldfish. Intelligent people. (at the time) unlimited overtime (Depending on your manager) less oversight which means more room for trial and error The feeling of working for something bigger.

Cons

Health insurance is awful. They stopped remote work (which is completely unnecessary for 80% of the jobs) No real perks. The snacks are junk food and bananas. Microsoft teams. They don't have a centralized all community channel. Any updates or news maybe comes from your manager if they remember, or this app called Voyager that is saturated with unrelated work stories. It is all promotional pictures of what the executives are doing to help "promote" what blue is doing. aka propaganda. You never know what is going wrong or down. The system's page is rarely updated and never accurate. Most of the time you are just out of work for the day especially when they have network outages. People literally come into work and don't have access to the internet so everyone is unable to do things. They say it is a startup but it has been 20 years, lol all of it is just mismanaged. If you want to upgrade your computer you have to wait 6 years. Most computers people work on are 2011-2013 machines. You don't get PTO unless you accumulate it. You can go into "debt" with it though.

1.0

Apr 5, 2022

There are many better places to work in Seattle

Anonymous employee

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Pros

Decent work-life balance, dog-friendly office.

Cons

No feasible equity in company offered, substantially lower pay compared to the rest of Seattle, leadership is out of touch in multiple ways and has no accountability, lack of diversity, slow-paced work with lots of red tape in processes and many more coming, no remote-work flexibility (everyone is being asked to come back into the office, ever-more-corporate culture with a lowered bar for hiring, very little opportunity to grow professionally, and you work on a glorified roller coaster ride for rich white people.

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