HOW ENGINEERS FINALLY LEFT BLUE ORIGIN TO JOIN SPACEX
What if you owned a company? Can you imagine any reason why an employee would decide to
resign immediately and leave your company for another company that competes with yours?
Surely, situations like this will not only drain you and cause you psychological stress,
but you will also want to believe that the other company is superior.
This is exactly the kind of situation that Jeff Bezos faced when he discovered that the
top engineers who resigned from his company are now queuing up at SpaceX looking for vacant
position, and that many of them have been hired as staff.
And we'll agree that before quitting your job to work for another company, there must
have been some terrible experience that negatively triggered your commitment to the company,
causing you to make the final decision to leave.
Hello and welcome to Tech Space. Stay tuned until the end of this video to learn the secret
reason why Blue Origin's top engineers left the company to seek urgent employment at SpaceX.
You'll also know the various engineers who resigned.
So lets roll along.
According to a recent process survey, it is believed that when an employee considers leaving,
he or she will be distracted, disengaged, less efficient, and frequently absent. But
why didn't Jeff Bezos find out sooner about his top workers, or did it happen all of a
sudden?
Keeping a keen eye out for tell-tale signs of an employee leaving is very important for
these three reasons. For starters, it allows you to address the issue early on and, hopefully,
change the employee's mind. Second, it provides an opportunity to prevent the resigning employee's
negativity from affecting other employees, which could lower morale and reduce overall
productivity. Finally, it provides more time to implement a recruitment strategy; the most
amusing aspect is that Jeff engineers did not exhibit any red flags at all.
So, in terms of a company's overall flexibility, consider the reasons why employees might want
to resign, as well as some negative behavior that will be observed.
1. The company's limited growth is ranked first.
Employees have a strong desire to advance in their careers, and one of the two most
common reasons for leaving a job is a lack of advancement opportunities. Recognizing
hard work and recognizing employees for a job well done, as well as establishing a clear
career path, can make employees feel like they have a long-term future at the organization.
2. The second point to mention is the feeling of not being paid enough.
Another important factor is salary. Employees at Blue Origin may have discovered that their
peers at SpaceX earn more, making them acutely aware of their market value. Offering competitive
pay and other benefits can thus encourage your employees to stay. However, keep in mind
that not all resignations are financial in nature, and that uncovering other underlying
factors may be required to retain an employee.
3. Another possibility is that Blue Origin employees were not sufficiently challenged
in their jobs. Employees who are engaged in their work and
feel like they are constantly learning do not want mindless work. Introducing new challenges
and setting new goals keeps employees engaged and motivated. We cannot really account this
as one of the reasons Blue Origin employees left, but keep in mind that humans have emotional
feelings, and no one must have known Jeff's employees' true intentions.
4. Feeling undervalued
Employees want to be recognized for their efforts. When a company disregards an employee's
achievements, the employee may seek value elsewhere, such as a new job. Implement a
system for validating good employees so that your employees feel like they are an important
part of the company.
Employee departures can also provide an opportunity to gain a better understanding of what can
be improved in your organization based on feedback gathered during the exit process.
Regarding all of the aforementioned reasons, perhaps due to negligence, Jeff Bezos' Blue
Origin's lead engineer has left to join Elon Musk's SpaceX. Despite the fact that the majority
of them were seriously working on Blue Origin's moon lander.
It follows Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos' space company, losing out to Elon Musk's SpaceX
on a $2.9 billion NASA contract to take humans to the moon. While it may appear that the
engineers who left discovered they could have a share of funds in the SpaceX contract, keep
in mind that everyone, including you, seeks the most profitable opportunity to secure.
For example, one of Blue Origin's favorite employees, Nitin Arora, publicly announced
on his LinkedIn post that he was leaving the company after nearly three years.
Despite the fact that he has been researching and working on Blue Origin's lunar lander,
which is designed to carry various payloads to the moon's surface.
"My last day at Blue Origin was Friday August 13th, working on the lunar program was an
incredible experience. Over the last three years, I've had the privilege of working with
and leading a group of incredibly smart, passionate people... SpaceX is the next stop!" Arora
wrote in a post.
Blue Origin has submitted its lunar lander for a NASA contract to return humans to the
moon by 2024. The agency initially stated that it would select two winners from SpaceX,
Blue Origin, and Dynetics - but instead, they only selected SpaceX, and as a result of this
single contract, a number of controversies, such as Twitter fights and lawsuits, have
occurred between both space companies.
Blue Origin did, in fact, sue NASA over its decision. In a statement to Insider, a Blue
Origin spokesperson stated that the company wanted to "remedy the flaws in the acquisition
process found in NASA's Human Landing System." Before suing NASA, Blue Origin filed a protest
in April, offered to pay up to $2 billion for the first two years of moon lander production,
and posted infographics on their website describing SpaceX's Starship as "immensely complex and
high risk." Details appeared to be cherry-picked in the graphics. Morgan McFall-Johnsen, an
insider, reported this.
Blue Origin lost dozens of key employees, including engineers, in the weeks after founder
Jeff Bezos' spaceflight on July 20. We guess it shouldn’t sound as if these lead workers
weren’t happy about Bezon’s successful flight.
The departures come despite Blue Origin reportedly providing a $10,000 no-strings-attached cash
bonus to all full-time employees.
According to reports, some of the workers who left Blue Origin have joined rival companies
such as SpaceX.
Another key employee who left was former NASA astronaut Jeff Ashby, and was also one of
the directors of the New Shepard launch program. Blue Origin has lost at least 17 key leaders
and senior engineers, with some joining rival space companies such as Elon Musk's SpaceX
and Firefly Aerospace.
As a matter of fact, many of those who have left Blue Origin are: New Shepard senior vice
president Steve Bennett, Chief of mission assurance Jeff Ashby (retired), National security
sales director Scott Jacobs, New Glenn senior director Bob Ess, and others. All togther,
they are about twelve more people. As a result, these talented workers must have discovered
something very interesting in spacex and decide to seek greener pastures.
Blue Origin is currently embroiled in a bitter legal battle with NASA over the decision to
award a key contract to rival SpaceX.
NASA's decision to award the contract to SpaceX prompted Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin to file
a formal protest with the Government Accountability Office GAO.
In July, Jeff Bezos offered to personally cover up to $2 billion in NASA costs if the
agency also offered his company a contract for a lunar lander.
Blue Origin essentially offered to waive up to $2 billion in payments in exchange for
funding an orbital mission, without bathing an eye-lid for the rest $9 billion to test
its technology, as well as covering any system development cost overruns.
However, on August 2, 2020, the GAO denied Blue Origin's challenge to NASA's $2.9 billion
lunar lander contract with Space X. A similar protest from military contractor Dynetics
was also rejected.
As a result, Blue Origin has filed a federal lawsuit against NASA, as part of its ongoing
claim that the US space agency wrongfully awarded a lucrative contract solely to SpaceX.
When NASA announced in early April that it would proceed with SpaceX as the sole contractor
for the project, it may have appeared as a meal ticket for Blue Origin engineers, but
the space agency cited costs as a primary reason for the decision, namely its own funding
shortfalls and SpaceX's proven track record of orbital missions.
So we could say that money is what drove Blue Origin's lead workers to leave their formal
company for SpaceX; they, too, want to eat the cake by receiving higher pay while working
on NASA's contract at SpaceX.
We won't actually blame them because humans are hardwired to seek a higher bid and refuse
to accept less. However, suppose a $2.9 billion contract is available, making those engineers
at SpaceX millionaires even before the contract is completed.
What are your thoughts on this scenario? Is there anything wrong with Blue Origin employees
leaving to work for SpaceX?
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