Too little too late - Lead Software Engineer MITRE Employee Review

1.0
12 Jan 2024
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Pros

Good leadership from the directors on down, smart friendly coworkers, interesting work

Cons

Out of touch executive leadership team shows nothing but contempt for the employees below them. The CEO has finally announced his retirement within a year, but enormous damage has already been done. The rank and file have suffered one adverse policy change after another, and the brain drain is well underway. The changes are so negative-sum and malicious that I can only assume that the company is actively trying to drive attrition to save money on severance after “good growth” turned out not to be so good. The CEO put his brother in charge of “business transformation”, which has been a fiasco. He wasted millions on consultants until they had to be fired when it was discovered they were producing unusable garbage.

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5.0
28 May 2026
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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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