Another Amazon Subsidiary - Engineer III Blue Origin Employee Review

1.0
1 May 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Very talented and motivated engineers

Cons

Lots of non-technical management managing technical direct reports Lack of career growth Monopoly money stock options Bonuses only given to level 4 and above despite majority of work being done by level 1-3 engineers Constant reorgs. Varies from just changing manager to switching to an entirely different program/discipline Vaporware; lots of programs have design changes that keep sending you back to square 1. Makes you feel like what you work on will never get launched. Management taken over by Amazon

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5.0
3 June 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good team to work with. No complaints.

Cons

No cons at this point.

1.0
7 June 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Cool work, brilliant engineers, exciting long term vision, well funded (Bezos), endless learning. I have an amazing team that solves challenges few people in the world can solve, on a frequent basis.

Cons

Sr leadership is incompetent to the point that I’m not sure the company can succeed with them at the wheel. Seeing how the sausage gets made reveals far too much. Talent is now getting harder to source because of the well-known issues along with burn out. We’re expected to lower the bar, do more with less, and cut corners. The C-suite can’t even recognize the erosion of the engineering pool because they don’t understand technical engineering principles. I wouldn’t be surprised if we see more frequent failures and testing anomalies soon, it all stems from the top. Sadly if this continues I will be the next out the door.

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