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      MITRE Associate Cyber Software Engineer reviews

      3.7

      56% would recommend to a friend

      (53 total reviews)
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      Mark Peters

      72% approve of CEO

      13% positive business outlook

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      Associate Cyber Software Engineer employees have rated MITRE with 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 53 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Associate Cyber Software Engineer professionals have a good working experience there. MITRE is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Associate Cyber Software Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Government & Public Administration industry (3.6 stars).

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      53 reviews
      3.0
      Apr 2, 2017

      good company, lacks technical career path

      Senior cyber security engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      - Work-life balance. Good benefits. Amazing retirement program. - Strong vision and values to impact government and the public interest - Internal research program can provide new and interesting opportunities outside of government-supporting work. - Great culture with generally helpful people - Recognition for work positively impacts yearly pay increases. "Out of cycle" raises more recently awarded to exceptional people

      Cons

      - Limited technical career path. "Moving up" generally suggests becoming a group or project lead, or working more with sponsor, but still doesn't encourage a solid technical leadership path. - Underwhelming opportunities to support government work - Extremely "top heavy", not doing enough (and not always enough interesting technical work) to retain talented junior/senior level engineers. - Internal research program funds lackluster projects that sound buzzy but lack substance. Many groups are trying and failing to turn fuzzy concepts into formulas. Gets distracted with imaginary 100% solutions, but fails to take more practical steps that make high impact. - Pay has come a long way, but still not competitive in the security space, especially for cleared employees. - 80% of overall time/effort is spent managing work or convincing government (or internal) of work to be done, but 20% is the workforce contributing to projects. Feels like an inverted pyramid.

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      MITRE Response
      9y
      Thanks for your detailed feedback. We’re happy to hear you enjoyed your work and work/life balance here. We're currently working on a technical career path initiative to better clarify a path for those interested in advancing their career without moving into management.
      5.0
      Jan 26, 2017

      Amazing Work Experience

      Cyber security engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Awesome Work Environment Smart Respectful Coworkers A lot of Opportunities to Excel / Plenty of Interesting Work

      Cons

      Limited by Congressional Spending, Red Tape / Beauracracy, -not a company specific complaint, since almost every company this size / in this space will have the same if not worse issues.

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      MITRE Response
      9y
      Glad to hear that you enjoyed your time here!
      4.0
      Jan 24, 2016

      Lots of Good Things and Some BAd

      Cyber security engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Note: I work at an off-site so i do not get to experience what my colleagues experience at the main east coast sites. -Flexibility and work/life balance is amazing, they value taking time off and most managers work with you so you can get a work schedule that benefits yourself and them. -Most of the work is pretty interesting, it varies from site to site but i find that the aerospace stuff is pretty great. -Good benefits package and education assistance program -If you want to participate in any professional development activities (conferences, certs, classes), it is usually easy to get approval.

      Cons

      -Red Tape by the truckloads. -Some managers are more political then technical and their decisions greatly impact your work. There has been times where i feel like im working for reason since the current project will change dramatically after one meeting. -Working at a site greatly limits the amount and type of work you get as compared to our HQ. -Managers can sometimes be overworked which limits the mentoring opportunities they can give to us juniors

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      MITRE Response
      10y
      We are pleased to hear you enjoy MITRE’s work-life balance, benefits and educational assistance offerings. Management is currently looking at how best to make more roles available enterprise-wide as opposed to center- and site-specific.
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