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      3.2

      49% would recommend to a friend

      (2,669 total reviews)
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      Mark Peters

      72% approve of CEO

      22% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.0

      Work/Life balance

      3.5

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.5

      Compensation and benefits

      3.2

      Culture & values

      3.0

      Career opportunities

      2.6

      Senior management

      MITRE has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 2,669 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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      3K reviews
      3.0
      Jan 3, 2021

      Fading and surviving on reputation of decades past accomplishments

      Aerospace engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Still some very nice, good people to work with. Unique ability to work inside the Federal Government

      Cons

      The business majors have taken over. They are warping it from an expert organization to a bunch of salespeople that don't care about the product, just about the next contract. They're also obsessed with whatever is trendy in tech, like machine leaning and AI. You're unlikely to ever get promoted at MITRE. It takes your whole career to get anywhere.

      3.0
      Jan 23, 2020

      Works for some

      Engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      * Excellent work life balance. Your work and work load is up to you. * Coworkers are very nice, and for the most part actually care about helping the customers succeed. * Benefits are good. I will say, I never felt angry or upset coming in to work. The work load is pretty much whatever you want to make it, and the people you're surrounded by are friendly. However, you will get to a point where you realize your ambition, talent, and career is dying. Overall, I recommend the company to people who are just starting out, or later in their lives. If you got ambition, you'd do better elsewhere. If you wish to be able to coast, this is a fine place.

      Cons

      * Management is useless. This is especially true at the executive and upper levels. I mean, come on, how does the CEO have a 30% approval and still have his job? Middle management doesn't provide much help in advancing your career or advocating for you in any way. Usually, they barely even know what your project is, or what you do day to do. Their job ends at listening to your yearly review. * Useful work is hard to come by. Many projects are plain old seat filler paper pushing, or have the semblance of usefulness, but will lead to nowhere. * Things are too shrouded. A lot of the work is reproductions of previous work due to real or made up (security theater) restrictions. * Pay becomes quickly non-competitive at the L2-4 ranges. There's no adjustment for actual performance, only a facade. Yearly adjustment is just divided up equally among staff, +/- a few shekels. * The government has a clear bias towards the DC area even though they're supposed to be for the whole nation. Work, opportunity, networking and so on is all focused down in DC area. You will quickly realize you're invisible and have no opportunity up in Bedford. * Overhead on projects is solely there to make your job harder and worse.

      1.0
      Sep 11, 2019

      Gen Z beware.

      Cyber security engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Great retirement benefits between their 401k matchup and 401B

      Cons

      New system of job tiers is not competitive with other firms these days. The matrix for compensation and rewards is based on publications instead of making a difference. There is an obvious age discrimination in the departments. Gen Z beware. You will struggle here.

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      At MITRE, we are a multi-generational and diverse team united by our shared purpose of solving problems for a safer world. We do not tolerate discrimination of any kind. If you have a specific complaint please contact our Office of Ethics and Compliance, ethics@mitre.org. If you prefer to remain anonymous, you may contact our employee hotline (800-MITRE-4U) or online reporting service (mycompliancereport.com).
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