Declining Organization - Anonymous employee MITRE Employee Review

1.0
14 Jun 2024
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Mitre changed remarkably within a 3 year period. From remote work to being utterly inflexible. Senior leadership treats employees like an inconvenient infestation. Pay has been relatively stagnant and so has PTO. Promotions are more aboutbpoliticd than work. They preach sponsor impact but even with numerous awards and rewards from the sponsor, unless you play the kiss up game, you will not advance. All workplaces call for politics, but Mitre is the worst I've ever seen.

Cons

Pay, Politics, Flexibility. Organization lost its identity

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MITRE Response
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Thank you for your honest feedback, we certainly appreciate any and all input from our talented workforce. Like many organizations, MITRE has evolved its flexible in-office program to provide employees with the adaptability they need to accommodate their personal and professional lives while supporting our company’s culture of connection, innovation, and collaboration. All MITRE employees can take advantage of our flex-time program that allows staff to flex their 80-hour pay-period time as needed with a minimum of only 50% of their time required in an office setting. Additionally. we are deeply committed to ensuring fairness and objectivity across all our employee programs, including the ability for our talent to grow and advance their careers through learning. Our robust employee learning eco-system provides tens of thousands of available courses (both technical and leadership based), and our Education Assistance Program financially supports staff who are pursuing higher education in their fields. That includes tuition assistance of up to $1,400 per credit and up to $28,000 per year towards additional or advanced degrees and College loan repayment assistance of up to $5,400 (lifetime maximum) toward student debt incurred before joining MITRE. Check out all our employee benefits at https://careers.mitre.org/us/en/benefits.

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