Good place right now - Anonymous employee Blue Origin Employee Review

4.0
Sep 30, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

It had a very positive culture right now because it has vision and money behind it. They have recruited or poached the best and the brightest, so you will come to work and feel like you're really in good company. Your co-workers will make you a better engineer every day. Overall, the company culture is great right now. Everyone from Jeff down to the lowest functionary, is really engaged, humble and personable.

Cons

It's definitely place only for experienced engineers who already made your mark somewhere else. Blue will not pay tuition reimbursement and there is no progression of titles like senior, I-V, due to the flat structure. Werner von Braun would be just "engineer" at Blue. Nobody special.

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Pros

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Cons

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Pros

Free coffee and snacks and a slice of pizza when New Glenn launched and landed. They years before Blue gave everyone a 10K bonus for the New Shepard first human flight, they have since shut the entire program down.

Cons

Too many to list. The high performers get hit the hardest. I went 8 months without out missing a day, pick up other incomplete projects. After 8 years I received zero stock options which was promised at time of hire. When I left Blue had 383 people with Director in their title and had 40 VPs. Blue even posted a picture of the Chief Engineers on their Facebook page, they had 42! I was there for 8 years and my title never changed, every year they promised a promotion but they never come. I have 2 Masters degrees my Sr Manager had an A.A in arts, once he made Sr Director he was there for 6 months and moved to Andril. The pad repairs will take a year and they will loose the FCC bandwidth which will make them obsolete.

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