Blue Origin reviews

3.2

48% would recommend to a friend

(344 total reviews)

Dave Limp

34% approve of CEO

40% positive business outlook

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2.0
Jul 9, 2021

Run away.

Recommend
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Pros

Work with extremely intelligent team members who are the best of the best. That's it.

Cons

- Old school mentality. Zero progression or forward thinking. - Prides itself on being "inclusive and diverse" when its very, very far from that. Highly concerning that every leader here is a white male. - Employee voices mean NOTHING. We speak on issues and offer solutions but management is unwilling to make any improvements. - No hybrid or flex schedule - Growth + pay raise is near to impossible. - TERRIBLE LEADERSHIP. Not only with CEO + Board, but also department leadership. Overall a disaster, completely out of touch and offer no support. - Work life balance... what's that? - Processes... what's that? - Favoritism is a real thing here. They pick and choose when they want to follow a process or not. - Ambiguity is also, a real thing here. - Actually ask employees to write positive reviews on glassdoor to increase their score. -Don't drink the Kool-Aid. We all do in the beginning but quickly figure out the Kool-Aid is garbage.

2.0
Jul 1, 2021

Amazing vision, and nothing else.

Recommend
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Pros

Work on orbital launch vehicles and manned spacecraft, with decades of projects planned well into the future!

Cons

*No hybrid WFH option, and no adjustment in pay to reflect the horrific Seattle area housing market. Archaic office-centric culture of misery and failure. Huge attrition due to lack of ability to evolve with the industry, resulting in further schedule slips and brain drain. *Worst offices most have encountered in their decades long careers (literally work in a circus tent loaded with incredibly small desks). *Horifically bad tools and processes, so much so that forward progress is impossible. No willingness to improve. "Go back to go forward mentality" is really just going back, and making going forward impossible. *Non-functional/technical figurehead style CEO and executive board, that makes mistake after mistake resulting in complete failure on all fronts, and is unwilling to listen to employees to make changes and improve the company. *Poor opportunities for advancement, minimal pay raises, very limited promotions (no pay raise until you threaten to quit, loyalty not rewarded). *Empty statements of support for diversity and inclusion, while embracing archaic policies of exclusion. *Brainwashing tactics to mask failure, "The circus tent is a visionary solution to our office capacity problem!" Blue is in a very bad spot right now, and likely won't change until the figurehead style executive board is eliminated and replaced with Jeffrey Bezos himself. Attrition and depression are rampant.

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