Trending in the wrong direction - Engineer Blue Origin Employee Review

1.0
20 Aug 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Years ago this company was a dream to work for. Every single person pulled their weight towards the collective goals. The attitude was get'r done. You either pick up a wrench and get to work or get out of the way. The ability to see your individual contributions directly pushing the program meant long hours and hard work were met with enthusiasm. Sadly this culture is long gone due to the sheer number of hoops that must be jumped through to compete even the simplest task. Regardless of the effort put forward, a mountain of needless bureaucracy ensures you'll be put in your place. I do genuinely believe everyone at the company wants it to succeed despite the frustrations.

Cons

In almost 10 years of a professional career I have never seen a company become so crippled by self imposed indecision, process, and procedure. I'm still not sure how a company with limitless funding and no shareholders has found a way to move slower than government agencies. If you are an engineer who likes to roll up your sleeves, dig in, and grind until a problem is solved I cannot in good faith recommend this company until a change in direction occurs.

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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
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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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