Facade. - Software Engineer Blue Origin Employee Review

1.0
16 Aug 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

You work on rockets. If you get to work in building A ever, you get to see rockets on the walk in.

Cons

Having read all the reviews on here before, I was skeptical of their authenticity. HR assuaged my worry by saying, "Oh it's Glassdoor, anyone can post a review, and we can't take it down." Every. Single. One. Has. Truth. This place is smoke and mirrors, with everyone that has any power or responsibility shirking it and pointing at someone else, saying, "Oh, it's their fault if they don't do anything about this.". Massive cycles and circular dependencies are formed like this that permeate management and engineering, crippling the company's ability to do anything or react. I see vestiges, ghosts of the denizens of a bright, beautiful company long gone still sipping coffee saying, "This is fine." Stay away. And leave.

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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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