Boiling frog - Lead Engineer MITRE Employee Review

2.0
15 Feb 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

When project and coworkers are good things can be great

Cons

Past 5 years MITRE has just gotten worse and worse. The CEO and senior leadership have plotted a course for MITRE and are full-speed ahead no matter the impact on the work or staff. Everything is falling apart. Drastic cuts to essential services and lack of support in core capabilities and security. Constant hiring and pushes for growth and revenue are causing everything to burst at the seams. Drastic cuts in benefits especially for loyal staff while the company does the best it has ever done. People can't find work and are running around constantly begging for a charge code. They are extremely resistant to removing terrible staff so these nightmares are shuffled around from project to project and tax the teams and management heavily. A two-tiered system where the leadership that keeps floundering and failing gets higher raises and bonuses on top of their already higher salaries. Where is the accountability and why is there a pay escape velocity at level 5+?

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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
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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