Promises and potential struggling with growth - Anonymous employee Blue Origin Employee Review

4.0
Oct 1, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Exciting, challenging, hands-on work. Long term vision and dedication from Bezos. Starting to change stagnant business practices.

Cons

Upper management levels are out of their league, unable to manage company growth and production of rockets. Too many managers from traditional aerospace unable to adjust their practices and instead shield themselves from all decision making. Growth has resulted in large amounts of employees just muddling through while approx 1/3 of core employees do the heavy lifting.

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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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