It is what you make of it - Lead Systems Engineer MITRE Employee Review

5.0
Mar 20, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

MITRE without a doubt is one of the best places in my career I have ever worked. The opportunities are endless. You are in Data Centers and you want to switch to Data Science? You can do that. Want to learn about how you can participate in Space research? Just reach out. Never have I been around a more collaborative, diverse, and super smart groups of people. The diversity is incredible. Older and younger, different cultural backgrounds, and a good mix of male in female from leadership on down. The benefits are best-in-class. You will not find better benefits. Work-life balance is real here. The pay, with all the competition filing into the DC area is getting much better than it was. It's definitely competitive now. If you are good at people networking, and trying new things, you will do very well at MITRE.

Cons

All of the pros are highly dependent on where in the company you are. If you have bad management, much of the pros will be eliminated. There are definitively large pockets where this is the case. If you are on the operations side, as opposed to the customer facing side, you could receive less pay and kudos for your hard work (though this is common at any similar organization). If you have trouble networking, or when faced with endless options you are paralyzed, you could have trouble finding work or being fulfilled. Sr. Management have made a number of questionable choices in recent history and it shows currently in the Glassdoor rating.

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MITRE Response
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Thank you for your thoughtful review. We are proud to be recognized as an organization that facilitates continous learning and development as well as collaborative work programs for all our talent. Successful innovation at MITRE and for our sponsors is ultimately driven by an open, learning mindset and the intersection of diverse ideas and perspectives. As part of our learning culture, we are receptive to feedback of any nature—it’s important for us to hear about what is going great, so we can grow and build on that, as well as what we can improve, so we can work to remove barriers that are inhibiting our potential. We encourage opportunities to hear from staff through our monthly Pulse surveys, lunch discussions with our CEO, staff focus groups, all-employee meetings, and other forums.

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