MITRE reviews

Much of the atmosphere I think is for show because when you try to get resources the answer is always that there isn’t any money. The real reason is there isn’t money unless you a friend of somebody who holds resources. I do not feel valued as an employee and interviewers were rude. That should have been a sign. I felt more valued at a start up with few resources but a common goal. The only goal I see at Mitre is to increase revenue. I thought that was the opposite of the goal.

In my experience, MITRE struggled to provide quality work. A few quality projects (which are actually useful) are financing an incredible amount of complete nonsense across the company. It has 20-30 times the number of employees it needs; every project has too many cooks in the kitchen. The culture is one of faking it; very little cutting edge or interesting work is done, yet all projects are somehow framed as successes. It's internal research program is a complete disaster and a sad use of tax-payer money. Models and prototypes are often built for absolutely no reason. MITRE occupies an important space in between the government and contractors, but this former employee is giving it an efficiency rating of 10%. And with your taxpayer money, you should be concerned.