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      Blue Origin

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      3.2

      46% would recommend to a friend

      (1,210 total reviews)

      Dave Limp

      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 1,210 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
      1.0
      Jun 10, 2025

      Dysfunctional and Directionless

      Materials and process engineer iii
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      The pay is pretty good and the technical aspects of the work are easy. Management are usually easy to impress.

      Cons

      No vision for what the products should be or what the company should be doing, we just jump to chase whatever SpaceX announced last. The culture is big on shooting the messenger, so all managers have an incentive to lie to look good and derail work to chase the whims their own management overpromised on. As a consequence, the higher ups who make *all* of the decisions don't know where the problems are and try to solve it by micromanaging. No one will ever leave their own silo, and you'll be punished if you try. Dangerous decisions by VPs go unchallenged because they'll make someone's metrics look good.

      4.0
      Jun 9, 2025

      So much potential

      Manufacturing engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      * I am surrounded by the smartest people I ever have worked around. * The the individual contributor and level 1 managers generally are trying their best. * Tons of low hanging fruit, if you have drive and can politic well, you will shine quickly.

      Cons

      * Every battle is up-hill. Fighting for funding to purchase something, fighting for time to invest into a project, fighting for priority in bottleneck work centers, everything is a fight. * Whiplash is constant. Expect no consistent messaging from leadership. * Level 1 managers are generally pretty good, like 70/30 good to bad. Level 2 is like 40/60. Level 3 is 10/90, ect... Management is filled with yes men who will quicker lick a boot for a goal than stand up for reality. They are all just gaming metrics trying to get their incentive plan bonuses with no regard for the final output of the company.

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