Best job ever - Machinist Blue Origin Employee Review

5.0
Dec 28, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

I have been working as a Machinist for over 20 years. I have been in and around a lot of machine shops. This is hands down the best machining environment I have ever been in. Management is great. The Machinists are knowledgeable, easy going and great to work with. Above all, I get to make rockets. Just being a part of this journey is amazing in its self. I couldn't ask for more.

Cons

The only con is that a few unqualified "Machinists" slipped through the cracks in the interview process. Even when they were found to be lacking experience the Management team did everything they thought they could to get them on track. They were given every opportunity to succeed. In the end, some had to go. It is funny that most of the bad comments seem to be from ex-employees. The bad comments from current employees show's that we still have inexperienced personnel that slipped through the interview process and will most likely leave in the near future.

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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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