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      3.2

      48% would recommend to a friend

      (2,658 total reviews)
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      Mark Peters

      72% approve of CEO

      21% positive business outlook

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      4.0

      Work/Life balance

      3.5

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.4

      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 2,658 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
      Feb 9, 2024

      Cannot wait for a new CEO

      Principal cybersecurity engineer
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      Pros

      The work at MITRE is fairly unique. You get to work on government problems that you don't often have access to at any other company, including typical government contactors. Most of the middle management (Division and Department Managers) are genuinely good bosses.

      Cons

      Since ~2021, the upper management (CEO and SVPs) keep making small incremental changes that are bad for employees. Quiet layoffs, reduction in benefits, reduction in vacation time, ham-fisted attempts to force people back into the office. Through all these changes, the attitude from above hasn't been transparent, apologetic, or even solidarity. It tends more toward "quit your whining". Additionally, MITRE's previous focus of "working in the public interest" seem to be fading, much like Google's "don't be evil" mantra slipped away. Corporate moves seem to be emulating commercial companies rather than MITRE's history of non-profit, public-interest, above all else. One example: raises for levels Principal and above are now tied to corporate goals that are hard to affect for anyone below a VP level.

      3.0
      Nov 15, 2021

      The Emperor's Wardrobe is Getting Sorta See-Through

      Engineer
      Recommend
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      Pros

      Benefits, though slightly trimmed from year to year, are still very good relative to industry. Demands and tempo are slow, gentle, varying a bit by project. You can have a cushy, low-stress life here, for decades, and, if you stay in to make maximal use of the retirement program, you will end up a paper millionaire.

      Cons

      A while back, the management consulting vultures told MITRE it was sitting on an untapped cash cow, that its brand was solid but virtually unknown, that its reputation was growing dull, passe, pricey, that it could be five or ten times greater with some aggression and re-invention. Senior leadership has cycled a few times since then, proclaiming We Will Change, Grow, Take Risks, We Will Be Younger, Faster, Different, Less Ivory Tower... each more forcefully than the last. These goals are not, by themselves, "bad," but their rhythm has ramped up past the point of sanity. New business angles and buzzwords fly by faster than the organization's ability to focus. Unclear whether this is fear of extinction, or just executive ego and muscle-flexing. Whatever the cause, our random flailing cannot continue.

      2.0
      Jan 12, 2023

      A fish rots from the head down

      Software engineer
      Recommend
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      Pros

      I like my direct supervisor, my department head, and my division leadership. I like the type and variety of work that I do. I'm always getting to learn new things.

      Cons

      The problems at MITRE can all be traced to the CEO and executive leadership team. They're obsessed with "affordability", which means that every few months or so, they're announcing more benefits that they're taking away from us. Our benefits used to be quite good, and made up for the lower cash compensation than we could be getting elsewhere. But that's not true anymore. After multiple rounds of whittling away at our benefits advantages, it's looking pretty average now. I just flat-out don't trust the executives to do right by us.

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