Feeling Down - Prinicpal Engineer MITRE Employee Review

1.0
Aug 14, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good mission, good work, love my teammates

Cons

Feeling really resentful about the loss of my paid time off - (company spin is that it's more equitable and thus positive). Every bit of company spending feels like it comes from my lost vacation time. It's summer and I had to waste many days for illness. It's a real betrayal. Now, if you can believe it, we just lost our garbage cans (company spin is that it's better for the environment and thus positive)! Was it really necessary to actually take away the garbage cans? Someone, somewhere, is going to have to puke and it's not going to be pretty. I used to love coming to work, but not so much anymore. My morale has hit rock bottom. Considering leaving after over 20 years because I deserve better. Current executive leadership is so awful beyond the pale that it's hard to ignore.

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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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