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      3.0
      Jul 6, 2016
      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      1) Most importantly, the opportunity to work on and make contributions to solving problems of national import 2) Excellent health benefits (although as in most companies more costs are being shouldered by the employee) 3) Most managers are top-notch (treating employees with the utmost respect / having a highly developed work ethic / being gifted technically) 4) Opportunities to occasionally take courses at off-site locations taught by subject matter experts

      Cons

      1) Promotions - limited promotion opportunities for those who don't want to become managers. No technical ladder. The result is that many employees who are technically gifted but not interested in management see their career flat-line; meanwhile a small subset of managers lack basic knowledge of elementary mathematics, physics, and engineering. 2) Pay - noncompetitive. Pay increases for more senior members of the technical staff is in the form of bonuses (not raises). The amount of increase is strongly correlated to one's salary as compared to the median for one's position, irrespective of one's performance for a particular year. 3) Management accountability - as noted above, the vast majority of managers are top-notch. A very small subset ignore the people that they are leading, or if they do interact, demean them and subject them to public ridicule, with the result that people either get off their projects, or leave Mitre. There is no apparent oversight of the 'rotten apples'.

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      Thank you for your review. We’re happy to hear that you enjoy MITRE’s mission and benefits. Work is ongoing on a technical career path initiative to help address concerns surrounding growth for employees on a more technical track.

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      5.0
      Jul 5, 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
      Jan 23, 2023
      Employee
      Recommend
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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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