Awesome vision, needs new corporate leadership - Anonymous employee Blue Origin Employee Review

4.0
19 Aug 2021
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Vision of building a road to millions of people in space is awesome. The opportunity to influence regulations, standards, and path for a new industry is once in a lifetime. The space race feels important and relevant. The employee culture is good, better than aerospace companies I've been at. The awareness of safety at an employee level is unusual and positive.

Cons

Too much disorganization. Roles & responsibilities continue to be insufficiently defined. In spite of a "gradatim ferociter" motto and a "build the company that builds rockets" mantra, in fact program funding determines everything so there is not enough coordination or innovation happening in the engineering across the company. Corporate leadership is out of tune with their employees, doesn't seem to care what employees think, and overrides and micromanages decisions. They have an old school mentality in spite of proclaiming they are new school. They fail to respect the expertise of their own experts. There is a culture of needing to take too many decisions to the top, when engineers and mid-level leaders could have made a decision and executed much more quickly.

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5.0
23 June 2026
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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
19 June 2026
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Pros

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

Cons

Leadership is inconsistent and often incompetent, company is very segmentalized and each group operates to different goals and schedules, poor communication with other parts of the company and with leadership. There is an overarching Yes-men mentality amongst leadership, and they often are just aiming to not be the group to be to blame for delays or failures. Personal growth is limited and widely ranges between different groups, there are areas where people see regular raises and promotions, while the majority seems to be told there are freezes or that they will be put in for next cycle. Pay has fallen behind, in the past they used to pay well and above the industry standard, but have not kept pace. Hours can be very long, again dependent on your group, some people may enjoy things like work from home or flexible schedules, but the majority are asked to work long hours and even support roles that could be remote are forced to be on site, despite a lack of space for the number of employees. I moved desks locations and buildings 6 times in 3 years. Re-orgs happen every 6 months, and create significant instability within the company, but rarely bring positive improvements. Good talent is not rewarded, and leaving quickly.

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