Changing - not in the right areas - Principal Artificial Intelligence Engineer MITRE Employee Review

3.0
Apr 7, 2021
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Pros

My technical colleagues are amazing - smart, collaborative people. My work is very interesting and I feel like it has worthwhile impact. The switch to teleworking (or whatever they're calling it) has improved my work-life balance.

Cons

The reorg and accompanying layoffs were ill-timed and ill-considered. Which pretty much sums up management's approach - they don't think 2 steps ahead or the disconnect between what they're saying and what their actions imply. They're focusing on hiring "world class experts" more than giving the existing workforce opportunities to grow. Job reqs are often open externally and not internally. They have dreams beyond their reach given the salaries they can afford to pay. People in many parts of the company are pretty demoralized. They pay lip service to diversity and seem to only take action when phrases like "hostile work environment" are used. They come out with new policies or procedures with no real justification or transparency. The benefits are "industry average" and the pay is below that for some disciplines. It's like they forget that they have smart people working for them.

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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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