Blue Origin is a ‘toxic’ workplace, some current and ex-workers claim in essay

I’m wary of these kinds of stories, where someone PR-savvy with a grudge lobs nebulous complaints against a company. Can anyone at BO without a grudge substantiate this “toxicness”?

Well Amazon is too. It's what happens when you push bullshit "leadership principles" and turn them into the criterion for peer performance reviews. I keep getting LinkedIn requests to come back to Amazon but I'd never join that company again on principle. Bezos is hollow. Take open-source, rebrand it, and kill the original projects. Give employees door desks and tea bags, and tell them to piss in bottles. A CEO knows what's happening. He didn't just overlook the culture he created.

Please don't let this cancerous company destroy Rust:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28513130

40 suborbital flights a year is like 400 times what the market for suborbital flights is.

(Funny nobody has tried to make a little reusable sounding rocket. You'd almost think a university research group could do it, but I guess that the hassle of handling liquid fuels effaces any gain you'd get from it.)