Needs better leaders - Hardware Engineer Blue Origin Employee Review

2.0
14 Oct 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- rocket launches - exciting industry - interesting technology - passionate engineers

Cons

- CEO is extremely out of touch - CEO has created an extra layer of 'people managers' who do not understand the tools, processes, or architecture - leadership does not take accountability - schedule is the priority and drives every decision - pay is stagnant, raises do not keep up with inflation - no women engineers in positions of power - has no plans on keeping WFH or hybrid options for post pandemic

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5.0
3 Jun 2026
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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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