Good company if you are only interested in personal life - Systems Engineer MITRE Employee Review

2.0
20 Jul 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Quality of Life is Job 1, Lack of good management means you are free to do what you want. If this is for you then this is your company. Retired while working is the motto.

Cons

They don't do any earth shattering work. Only get the simple problems -- though they advertise otherwise. It's a good ole boy shop so if you are not in the group, you don't go anywhere. They are always in a reorg. The past three CEO s have been untrained and unprepared for the job -- most of the VPs and SVPs are in the same boat. But they are in the gang. They don't follow their own rules. Lots of lip service but no action.

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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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