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      3.2

      48% would recommend to a friend

      (2,667 total reviews)
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      Mark Peters

      72% approve of CEO

      21% positive business outlook

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      MITRE has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 2,667 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The MITRE employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Government & Public Administration industry (3.6 stars).

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      3.0
      Aug 22, 2019

      Aberdeen Site has gone downhill

      Lead systems engineer
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      Pros

      Good work / life balance, decent compensation Not for profit allows some better work

      Cons

      - Company strategic plan is to ignore the core business and keep adding more business units (FFRDC) that have little in common. - Surveyed to death, with little results

      3.0
      Dec 8, 2018

      System Administrator

      It support
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      Pros

      People are very smart and very nice for the most part. Often interesting work. There are definitely centers of excellence where smart and dedicated people work hard.

      Cons

      From what I observed, management at all levels consistently ducks and avoids difficult personnel decisions, allowing incompetent people and even people who drive others away to stay in place for far too long. In my department, for example, favoritism was blatant, and management was unapologetic about it. Also, the department head hired a number of developers when systems administrators were needed. The developers had nothing to do and had no clearances, so they couldn't even be deployed at customer sites to gain experience. In several instances, to my direct knowledge, managers told long-term employees that they (the employees) had to find something for these people to do. Management was often adept at abdicating their responsibilities. and this was a clear example of such abdication.

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      MITRE Response
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      Thank you for sharing your perspective. It’s clear that MITRE has an immensely talented workforce that is dedicated to serving our sponsors and our nation. Each of us has a role to play to deliver on our mission. We need the expertise and experience of our mid-career and late-career staff, the new ideas and thinking of our early-career staff, and leadership at all levels of the organization. This year we are introducing a new program that strategically pairs early-career staff and experts on project teams to enable continuous learning and development for everyone involved. We will continue to focus on building and developing our team, including our leaders, to bring forward the best that MITRE has to offer.
      3.0
      Sep 13, 2018

      Still a lot going for it

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      MITRE is still a place where smart, motivated people can truly make a difference in national security and have a great career. The workforce is very talented, collaboration is open and highly valued, and opportunities abound. Employees can easily move around the company and across FFRDCs, applying their skills to all manner of hard problems from different domains like space, cyber, healthcare, intelligence, military, treasury, and law enforcement. Some international opportunities too. People stay here a long time because there are good benefits, but also excellent training and growth opportunities. You can have a long and varied career here, with plenty of mobility and variety, in a culture of public service.

      Cons

      Current executive leadership is intentionally disrupting the culture and focus of the organization, with vague goals and questionable means. Messaging about ‘good growth’ sounds like a move away from first principles of not-for-profit public service, and staff are concerned about unintended consequences, but understand that negative feedback is not welcome. COO-led buyout/layoff of operations staff was inept, poorly timed and poorly managed. CEO appears unconcerned and dismissive about the negative climate he has created amongst the staff. CEO also has serious issues with his personal brand.

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