r/BlueOrigin • u/BlueOriginMod • Oct 03 '24

Monthly Blue Origin Career Thread

Intro

Welcome to the monthly Blue Origin career discussion thread for October 2024, where you can talk about all career & professional topics. Topics may include:

  • Professional career guidance & questions; e.g. Hiring process, types of jobs, career growth at Blue Origin

  • Educational guidance & questions; e.g. what to major in, which universities are good, topics to study

  • Questions about working for Blue Origin; e.g. Work life balance, living in Kent, WA, pay and benefits

Guidelines

  1. Before asking any questions, check if someone has already posted an answer! A link to the previous thread can be found here.

  2. All career posts not in these threads will be removed, and the poster will be asked to post here instead.

  3. Subreddit rules still apply and will be enforced. See them here.

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u/Caelgo Nov 01 '24

Just go email from recruiter that my presentation and panel interviews were cancelled since Blue is going on a hiring freeze for the New Shepard program.... sigh, was nervous but excited about making it this far.

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u/SpendOk4267 Nov 07 '24

Rumor is they are going through a reorg.

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u/babaduk123 Nov 09 '24

How often do these happen? Are there a lot of layoffs at blue origin?

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u/Harriswheel61 Nov 21 '24

Reorgs have been somewhat common recently with the change in our CEO and other leadership. There's a lot of focus right now on reworking and streamlining our processes to support future growth plans, so the reorgs are being done with a solid purpose in mind.

My experience in the Enterprise Technology BU is that the general goal is to retain and rehome all of our team members as much as possible, but some cuts do happen. For example, I've been under the same manager through several reorgs now, most of the changes seem to be at the leadership level.