Terrible place to be a manager - Manager MITRE Employee Review

3.0
17 Nov 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Talented employees, varied and meaningful work, good educational benefits, impressive covid-19 response.

Cons

Middle management (groups, departments, divisions) is overworked and undervalued. HR is completely dysfunctional, top heavy with too few HR business partners to help with normal business processes. The Employee Engagement team writing responses here spends the rest of its time viciously bullying middle managers over frivolous employee complaints in the name of culture - "grace and respect" - what a joke. Talented managers quit to take jobs elsewhere.

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5.0
17 Mar 2026
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Pros

Good company, very supportive enviroment

Cons

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3.0
23 Jan 2023
Recommend
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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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