Machine Shop - Machinist Blue Origin Employee Review

1.0
Dec 3, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Benefits are good. Pay is above what area is paying. 4 weeks paid vacation. Free food on Tuesday's. I made more money than ever doing less work than ever.

Cons

If you are a real machinist and like to work for a living stay away from Blue Origin. They are hiring machinist but all they really need is machine operators. This job was so boring. Most of the time you are sitting around waiting. If you have good ideas and would like to feel your opinions are appreciated this is not for you. Machine shop management is really taking Jeff Bazos for a ride. They work at least 45 hours a week even if there is nothing to do. They had machinist mopping floors while on overtime. If you don't want to work hard and spend Jeff’s money than this is the place for you. I'm only talking about the machine shop not the entire company. I can best describe the machine shop management as people trying to play machine shop. Five weeks had gone by from the day I started before the shop supervisor even said one word to me. I never really felt welcomed. If you are a real machinist you will be bored. Button pushers welcome to the Blue Origin Machine Shop Cult. The last time someone tried to tell the truth, management instantly made them tow the line. Shut up and do what we say. Even if it's wrong.

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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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