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      In Transition Second Round - Lead Engineer MITRE Employee Review

      3.0
      2 Mar 2016
      Lead engineer
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      Pros

      I am glad there is a place for second career government and military personnel. MITRE has many of us who worked for agencies with successful careers. This is a comfortable position to work now in a government contractor role with full retirement benefits. The facility is modern and up-to-date and I am providing similar management type services as my previous career.

      Cons

      Not clear the specific role MITRE play since I am providing similar work as government agency managerial-type jobs, a lot of back and forth, which should be done by my previous peers. The internal technology folks are pedestrian and not scientific behind the cover; it is difficult to get a straight technical answer which can be found on scientific web sites when I was with the government. While I will be getting another retirement, I am seriously thinking this is a borderline ethic question not for my pay grade.

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      Thank you for taking the time to post a review. We’re happy to hear that you’re enjoying your second career at MITRE. Because we are a not-for-profit and are able to remain free of conflict of interest, we are able to provide our sponsors with a unique perspective to help them solve their most challenging problems.

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      5.0
      5 Jul 2026
      Lead cyber security engineer
      Recommend
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      Pros

      autonomy, interesting work, supportive culture

      Cons

      Finding projects, building expertise in specific domains

      3.0
      23 Jan 2023
      Employee
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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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