Solid Choice for Middle-Class Neoliberal Late Capitalism Comfortable Living - Senior Cybersecurity Engineer MITRE Employee Review

3.0
Sep 4, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

The whole federal consulting field allows for a nice pipeline from taxpayer, to government, to government employees, who are wealthy enough to themselves be taxpayers but not so wealthy as to avoid taxes. So the compensation is great. If you can stick to your principle and accept only work for the agencies that you believe in, you can look at yourself in the mirror every morning. As of now, there are some work from home options, but the company has been signaling that it will take those away for over a year now.

Cons

There’s no way this whole enterprise stays financially viable for the next ten years. Salaries are competitive with private sector, but budgets are not. There will be a reckoning. Also, like every other company I’ve ever seen or worked for, efforts at diversity and inclusion are window dressing, and ultimately designed to maintain a delicate status quo.

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5.0
May 28, 2026
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Pros

Supportive leadership Interesting work Work/life balance

Cons

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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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