Last month, the world's richest man Jeff Bezos flew into space on a rocket from his company, Blue Origin. But not long after, the rocket experts at Blue Origin started to resign. What's wrong?
At least 17 senior executives and engineers have left Blue Origin. Some of them resigned precisely after Bezos managed to take off on a New Shepard rocket.
Some of those who left include New Shepard senior vice president Steve Bennett, chief of mission assurance Jeff Ashby, national security sales director Scott Jacobs, New Glenn senior director Bob Ess, New Glenn first stage senior director Tod Byquist, and New Glenn senior finance manager Bill. Scammel.
It is not explained specifically what the reason is. However, based on a review on the employment site Glasdoor, some employees complained that there was frustration with management and a slow bureaucratic structure.
Blue Origin's party considered the incident not to have a big impact. "Blue Origin's employees have grown from 850 people in 2020 to 650 people in 2021. In fact, our HR has increased tremendously in the last three years," said a Blue Origin spokesperson. In total, Blue Origin employs about 4,000 employees.
Some of the engineers who resigned were working on Blue Origin's Moon landing system, which recently lost a tender to SpaceX. Jeff Bezos didn't take the loss for granted, so Blue Origin recently sued NASA.
On the other hand, Jeff Bezos seems very happy that Blue Origin managed to take him into space and pave the way for space tourism. After darting into Earth orbit, reportedly he gave a bonus of USD 10,000 to each Blue Origin employee.
