Working in IT at MITRE is just horrible! Stay away! - Principal MITRE Employee Review

1.0
Jun 30, 2023
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Pros

I Still have a job while the rest of the IT organization is dismantled, demoralized and marginalized.

Cons

Lack of vision and leadership starting with the new CIO down to the directors. The new mantra is "everything AI" but details on what that means is left to the imagination... New CIO is full of buzz words, but simply can not back it up with a vision to get us there. To make matters worse, IT just did a force reduction of some of the brightest thinkers in the organization I can only expect it will get worse. Dwindling benefits for the staff, e.g. assume that your PTOB includes 4 weeks vacation, that gives you 20 hours a year remaining for sick/personal time off... One 3 day illness cuts into your Vacation! Top heavy, seems like a new VP a month

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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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