Good Company from which to be an Independant Consultant - Senior Systems Engineer MITRE Employee Review

2.0
Feb 12, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Nice EA Package. Solid benefits package. Good work - life balance. Nice body shop for Engineers.

Cons

Increasingly PC. Bureaucratic culture. Not meritorious. Core competencies not fostered and developed. Senior level management does not provide strategic leaderships, just stirs the pot. The MITRE Way has added another layer of bureaucracy with no apparent benefits to the company.

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