Interesting work, leadership has lost sight of the vision - Engineering Manager Blue Origin Employee Review

3.0
Jun 5, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Interesting engineering challenges. Great dynamics at the team level. Ample opportunities for exposure to other disciplines. Benefits are decent for Aerospace. High achievers can rise rapidly.

Cons

Transition from R&D house to sustainable business has difficult. Senior Management layers are almost entirely external hires who don't understand the culture that enabled early success. Becoming process driven to the point of paralysis for some business units. Values Big Tech talent but pays Big Aero salaries, making it very uncompetitive in the Seattle area. Management very very slow to react to concerning employee feedback on benefits, leadership, and work structure. Initial slow response to Covid crisis alienated a lot of people.

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Pros

Good team to work with. No complaints.

Cons

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1.0
Jun 14, 2026
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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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