Company being steered in the wrong direction - Anonymous employee MITRE Employee Review

1.0
19 July 2018
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Very intelligent and hardworking people, decent benefits, and flexibility.

Cons

Faith in the executive leadership has all but completely eroded. Chronic reshaping and changing of goals. Laying off and early retiring people in corporate operations while hiring so many people in the line organizations they don’t have work for everyone. The c-suite has become so elitist it’s sick. The employees are literally on pins and needles and these guys barely come out of their 14th floor penthouse to even hear what the average employee thinks. They even went as far as to end the annual all-employee survey because apparently what we have to say isn’t important and they can get the “same data” from “best places to work” surveys, ones that can be selectively sent out to a subset of employees. Bottom line, they hear what they want to hear and everything else is just noise. What once was a very happy place to work has become weird and depressing.

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Cons

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Pros

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