All about metrics that don't align - Production Control Blue Origin Employee Review

3.0
Sep 11, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

I worked with a very nice group, loved the people. I got to learn about things that I never expected to be a part of in my life. I was eventually able to move up. Pay is on the higher end which is nice, though WA has gotten so expensive, it may not seem very high soon.

Cons

-My manager changed about every 6 months for various re-orgs. Not too impactful until review time because they'd barely know how I work. -Blue only recently jumped on the MRP bandwagon, so I don't feel like I learned transferrable skills because they tried so hard to work differently than pretty much any other manufacturer. -Leadership puts intense focus on several metrics, which sounds ok, until you realize they can't possibly align with each other so something is always looking bad. -Heavy DEI focus, to the point where we lost a lot of traditional PTO days (like Christmas Eve if you can believe it) in favor of flex time, and there was no direction in place for how management was supposed to handle the obvious influx of requests for the days that MOST of the company would want off. Honestly, the day I learned our traditional holidays were impacted is the day I decided to move on from Blue. -The PC group eventually sort of split up, which meant Ops side, with good intentions, gave their people higher levels and pay despite the employees being inexperienced. Good for them, but it was completely unfair to those of us who had to put in our time for the same thing that Ops gave away. -A lot of employees are soft to the point that the announcement of time clocks, an extremely normal practice, caused an emotional uproar. The honor system for clocking hours was nice, it made things easy, but time fraud was rampant because of it.

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Pros

4 weeks of PTO, good benefits, free drinks and snacks available at all locations.

Cons

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