Existential Moment hasn't hit yet - Principal MITRE Employee Review

1.0
Aug 26, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Still has the right mission

Cons

Middle management is still protecting their friends. Long time directors, division chief engineers, and highly tenured program owners are still covering based on friendships and political alliances. Newer "outsiders" that are not FFRDC "native" and raised in the revenue-centric model are still ego-driven and not truly mission and people-centered in their outlook. Layoffs on paper are based on coverage. In reality, good people are getting kicked to the curb while "friends" get coverage because they are in the right department or have the right alliances.

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3.0
Jan 23, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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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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