Pros
Pay and Benefits are good
Cons
The company specializes in being pedantic. I've often said MITRE is very good at "admiring the problem" instead of solving it. MITRE "engineers" like to proffer their expertise, which is highly inflated, to government programs to make the problem space more complicated. Rather than closing the problem to make better decisions for the government, they offer lots of caveats and "yeah, buts..." I suggest everyone at MITRE read Kill Chain by Christian Brose and take a long hard look in the mirror. Our adversaries are strategically defeating us, and bickering and arguing about communications protocols is literally making it worse. Building a better widget is NOT what the DOD needs When they fired Al Grasso as CEO, he said offered some works of wisdom on his way out regarding MITRE's future. Paraphrasing, he said "it'll depend if MITRE is seen as part of the problem or part of the solution." I can assure MITRE is part of the problem