Space Dystopia - Engineer Blue Origin Employee Review

1.0
Oct 2, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- The original vision was inspiring - millions of people living and working in space - There are remnants of functional groups that achieved something in the past, during the reign of the old president ("small pockets of competence") - Funding appears to be unlimited (for now) - They do not seem to fire people easily, even if they mess up big

Cons

- Absence of ownership and accountability is a norm - Vast incompetence and inexperience (Blue is riddled with new grads and rejects from other aerospace companies) that hardly know what they are talking about, less what they are doing - Blame culture and high turnover - Arrogance and unreasonable optimism/bullishness are character traits of the majority of managers

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Pros

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Cons

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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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