Used to be a great company, not anymore - Principal Systems Engineer MITRE Employee Review

1.0
Nov 30, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great benefit, health insurance, 401K matching, paid time off, free meals, etc. Many intelligent employees to work with

Cons

As a federal funded research and development center, the company is suppose to perform scientific research from an apolitical view. Ever since the change of senior management, this has changed. The company purged senior managers who are not aligned up with its agenda in 2020 right before July 4th. This year, fired hundreds of talented employees right before Thanksgiving for not compliant with company policy. The entire exemption process was kept in the dark, neither criteria nor justifications nor appealing process were provided for rejection. No reasonable accommodations were provided although most of the employees have been supporting work remotely successfully for over a year. Direct supervisors, department managers and project leads were not notified until after the termination. Many projects were disrupted and severely damaged due to loss of essential engineers.

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5.0
Jun 5, 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
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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