MITRE reviews

~28 VPs with big salaries is 26 too many No longer an engineering company. Seriously running on reputation.

Noticeable pockets of inexperienced (younger) senior level leaders don’t seem to have the same ethical standards as the more tenured folks. I have observed leaders whose approach in dealing with new employees was interrogating them trying to get confidential details about how their former employers operate, then adopting those ideas for use at MITRE and passing them off to the executive team as their own original thoughts. I have also witnessed a fair amount of gossip and other unprofessional behaviors from people at high levels who most certainly should know better given their roles in the org. I have also seen an inexperienced leader retaliate against an employee who raised a legitimate concern. Questionable behaviors like this make a small environment seem even smaller. MITRE seems to be suffering from an identity crisis and headed in the wrong direction from an ethics and internal politics point of view. Many newer (younger) people comment that the older (and oftentimes genuinely nicer) workers should go ahead and retire because they are in the way of change, but, the drama, ethics challenges and petty antics some newer leaders are demonstrating is not the right type of change and the culture is suffering because of it.