Some Interesting technical work, but brown-nosing and favoritism are required for advancement. - Lead Engineer MITRE Employee Review

2.0
25 Mar 2009
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Pros

The best reasons to work for MITRE are the retirement plan and the flex-time schedule. With the company contribution, an employee is able to contribute over 25% of salary a year to his or her 403(b) and 401(a) plans. Flex-time permits employees to work 40 hours at essentially any time during the week.

Cons

The biggest downsides of working at MITRE are that the company is way over-managed, and politics are so predominant that promotion requires a heavy dose of brown-nosing and favoritism. Managers literally market each other through meeting, viewgraphs, and programmatics. Advancement depends on hooking up with a sponsor who gets you promoted regardless of technical competence.

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5.0
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Pros

Good work life balance, not too competitive

Cons

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3.0
23 Jan 2023
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Pros

Great diversity, quality of life and staff. Been with MITRE over 20 years.

Cons

Too many VP,s that are not held accountable. Company recently RIF'd 24 staff from FAA FFRDC, due to dropping gov't funding...yet company has significant number of VPs all sucking off of overhead. No attempt to manage money within the "leadership" ranks. Last year company went through a major business transformation...that failed...yet, VPs held staff accountable for reporting on a subpar system that lasted over 12 months. Could not even get business data to report to gov't for over 2 months, yet, person who was in charge of the business transformation is still at MITRE. If this happened to any other MITRE employee, they would've been gone. Oddly enough the person in charge of the business transformation is the CEOs brother. Amazing how that happens. He'll probably get a bonus because of his substandard performance. MITRE recently invested in opening up an office in Australia. All on company overhead. significant large numbers of VPs travelling out to "visit"...yet company has the audacity to reduce benefits as part of cost cutting measures. Company has now taken on a "for profit" mentality. It's all about delivery... so VPS and GMs can spend, spend, spend. Board of Directors should take a good look at what is happening and make some swift changes from the CEO on down. BOD should also implement an independent IG like entity to investigate what is seeming like waste, fraud and abuse by CEO, GMs and VPs. Time for the Fat Cats to get purged!!!

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