Great for my first 15 years poor for my last 10 years. - Principal Systems Engineer MITRE Employee Review

3.0
Sep 28, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

Ability to apply skills in support of the Government. Ability to make decision and apply them to sponsor support. MITRE IT Infrastructure and support. Benefits before retiring.

Cons

Requirements to support the Government in their offices as Action Officers and then accused by MITRE Management of going native. Out of sight and out of mind attitude when it comes to Salery increases and and Promotions. Need to continually provide self accomplishment Sound Bytes to Management to achieve status in the "Iner Circle". Workloads that demand 60-70 hours a week to be successful. Elimination of all Retiree Benifits when you reach 65, even thought you were paying 100% of there costs.

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5.0
May 28, 2026
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Pros

Supportive leadership Interesting work Work/life balance

Cons

Searching for projects at times Funding challenges

3.0
Jan 23, 2023
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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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