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      System Administrator - IT Support MITRE Employee Review

      3.0
      8 Dec 2018
      It support
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      People are very smart and very nice for the most part. Often interesting work. There are definitely centers of excellence where smart and dedicated people work hard.

      Cons

      From what I observed, management at all levels consistently ducks and avoids difficult personnel decisions, allowing incompetent people and even people who drive others away to stay in place for far too long. In my department, for example, favoritism was blatant, and management was unapologetic about it. Also, the department head hired a number of developers when systems administrators were needed. The developers had nothing to do and had no clearances, so they couldn't even be deployed at customer sites to gain experience. In several instances, to my direct knowledge, managers told long-term employees that they (the employees) had to find something for these people to do. Management was often adept at abdicating their responsibilities. and this was a clear example of such abdication.

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      Thank you for sharing your perspective. It’s clear that MITRE has an immensely talented workforce that is dedicated to serving our sponsors and our nation. Each of us has a role to play to deliver on our mission. We need the expertise and experience of our mid-career and late-career staff, the new ideas and thinking of our early-career staff, and leadership at all levels of the organization. This year we are introducing a new program that strategically pairs early-career staff and experts on project teams to enable continuous learning and development for everyone involved. We will continue to focus on building and developing our team, including our leaders, to bring forward the best that MITRE has to offer.

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      5.0
      26 Jun 2026
      Lead scientist
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      People are smart and cares about the work

      Cons

      Changes in government contract and dependence on contract makes finding work unstable

      3.0
      23 Jan 2023
      Employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      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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