Run, don't walk SpaceX treat their people better! - Sr Specialist Blue Origin Employee Review

1.0
Feb 11, 2025
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Pros

Fantastic people that are very smart and talented

Cons

Management that is trying to make Blue a fulfillment center instead of a rocket company. They lay people off under the guise of 'performance' and then distribute the work on the rest of the team so is already under water. They just fire people for performance without employees ever knowing that they did not meet the managers expectation. No PIP's just fire out of nowhere. It is all about the rate and numbers now, People are just numbers and used as peons they may even slap a barcode on the employees soon to scan them. The morale is so low but management doesn't care at all. A new leadership principle was implemented last year that says Hire and develop the best. Blue does hire the best but has never done any development and then management is shocked when people leave because there is no development.

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5.0
Jun 3, 2026
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Pros

Good team to work with. No complaints.

Cons

No cons at this point.

1.0
Jun 14, 2026
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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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