It’s rough right now - Principal MITRE Employee Review

2.0
Jul 23, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

…. Not a lot right now, good projects are hard to come by, competition - think hunger games, few leadership opportunities, RIFs … we are heading into #3, with 4 and most likely 5 soon to follow with now idea who is really at risk….but appears to be more experienced folks

Cons

Retirement benefits, work-life balance, when you get a good project that aligns with your skills - work with a great team - have a great sponsor AND a good project lead - life is great - but that has been far and few between in the last few years. A lot of young inexperienced folks put in PL positions , while smart, don’t know half as much as they think they do

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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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