Company heading in wrong direction. Again. - Operations Blue Origin Employee Review

2.0
21 May 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Decent enough pay. Easy to find people who relate to the state of things and also need to talk about it.

Cons

No career development unless a level 1. And then the ceiling comes fast. Low morale. The company recently targeted and fired a great deal of people eligible for the annual bonus, and are backfilling with lower level hires that are not eligible nor will become eligible for the annual bonus. Seeing peers get walked out for no good reason is highly demoralizing, and then watching more peers flee the company for safer haven doesn't either help. Toxic politics are rampant, it's like Game of Thrones - Corporate Aerospace Edition, and it's detracting from actually producing results while further beating down morale. Very top heavy, especially after the recent culling and voluntary departures. A lot of managers with a couple people under them while more lower level folks get let go. (toxic politics) Things will get a lot worse before they improve. Including if the company can get to rate with production and launch the vehicles. Having low morale and low outputs is no good for anyone.

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5.0
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Pros

Good team to work with. No complaints.

Cons

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1.0
14 Jun 2026
Recommend
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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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