Gradual Erosion of Confidence and Benefits - Principal Engineer MITRE Employee Review

1.0
5 Dec 2023
Recommend
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Pros

- Working with an exceptionally talented technical staff - Mac laptops are offered, which can improve productivity

Cons

- There is an expectation that technical staff search to find new projects they can split their time on to remain fully allocated. If you encounter difficulty doing this then you either get poor assignments or pushed out as there would not be enough assigned work. Those working at remote site locations outside of the main two campuses in Bedford and McLean are likely to encounter more challenges. To mitigate this con, consider starting your MITRE career at one of the two campus locations at least for the first year. - Significant and impactful erosion of benefits during the past year (notably, a benefit was taken away within 3 weeks of starting which partially formed the basis of selecting MITRE) - Remote work policy changed from 1-day/week in the office to 3 or 4-days/week in the office over the past year; however, there are simply not enough offices to accomodate the influx of people. This leads to double or tripling up on offices, which can tank productivity if you're not able to maintain concentration

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5.0
5 Jun 2026
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Pros

Good work life balance, not too competitive

Cons

Slightly lower comp compared to other for profit companies in the area

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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