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      3.2

      48% would recommend to a friend

      (2,661 total reviews)
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      Mark Peters

      72% approve of CEO

      20% 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 2,661 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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      2.0
      Nov 11, 2019

      Air of superiority that doesn’t deliver

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      Good work/life balance, flexible work location, very good retirement

      Cons

      MITRE as an organization grossly inflates its worth. If you like engineering, as in technical problem solving, this is not the place for you. If you like having a million useless meetings, moving at the snails pace of the U.S. Government, and routinely trying to find ways to justify your existence on a project when your organization isn’t really doing anything impactful and has zero control of scope... this may be a good fit. Be prepared to meet the most subject matter experts you’ve ever encountered in one place. At least that’s how MITRE likes to introduce all staff to its sponsors. Even when it’s blatantly false. Which you’ll find it is most of the time. MITRE tends to hire leadership from within and this has led to an echo-chamber/group think mentality that maintains the status quo of tooting your own horn while delivering nothing of any real value. The work is slow and generally not nearly as impactful cutting edge as MITRE claims.

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      MITRE Response
      6y
      We are proud of the work that each and every one of does us at MITRE to support our shared mission of solving problems for a safer world. We value all of our talent and strive to provide the environment in which we can maximize our collective potential. The work we do delivers innovative and impactful technical solutions to our sponsors across government—from patented, trademarked, copyrighted, published, and licensed solutions to tackling challenges in dozens of areas. In cybersecurity, for example, we created MITRE ATTACK(TM), a globally accessible knowledge base of adversary tactics and techniques based on real-world observations. Our employees collaborate closely through public-private partnerships, as well as our sponsor work, to create new solutions to difficult challenges, making a difference both at MITRE and around the world.
      2.0
      Jun 25, 2019

      Increasingly top heavy, at detriment to "regular" employees

      Principal engineer
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      Pros

      Work is high impact and interesting. Many great people

      Cons

      Increasing management overhead is taking away from employees. Department management budgets are also decreasing - no charge codes being provided for all hands meetings, less money for training for staff, the number of staff under first-line managers continues to increase while the amount of time they are given to manage stays the same. Employees are left to scrounge for things that are provided routinely at other companies, like a second monitor. Meanwhile more and more VP positions continue to be added, and more upper management is made bonus-eligible. I feel less connected to upper management than I did when I was an entry-level employee, and have heard similar complaints from others.

      2.0
      Mar 21, 2019

      Working in a Graveyard

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      I am a young person ( in my 20s) who has worked at MITRE for less than 5 years. I can say that the company has great work-life balance and employees do not have to work too hard to get assignments done. Laid back atmosphere where you can enter or exit the office whenever you please. Ability to work from home multiple days a week depending on the project that you are on. No pressure from management when you take a vacation, and coworkers tend to be very polite and professional. If you love credentials, MITRE has a lot of people with PhDs, masters degrees, and certifications working there.

      Cons

      Where do I start? MITRE has a lot of problems, especially if you are a young person. MITRE is a walled/ closed door office environment. All meetings are always held on Skype even if everyone is in the building, and working on the same floor. Most of the people at MITRE are academics so they are not the most exciting people to converse with unless you are also an academic. The company has an unusual system of group leaders, task leaders, and project leaders which can create unnecessary layers of bureaucracy. There is no way of knowing which projects are available, and this can put pressure on employees to stay on projects they do not like so that they can remain covered. Promotions are very inconsistent at MITRE. Some people get promoted after 1 year, others 3 years, some 6 years, and there are people who stay in the same position for 10 years or more. How does that happen? I have no idea because no one will tell you how promotions are handled. The response is "management decides who deserves a promotion". MITRE is anti-entrepreneurial, and young workers are seen as immature, unreasonable, or just flat out dumb. Instead of shifting towards new areas of technology that can help the company in the future, older workers are complaining about how MITRE is changing, and frankly, they are keeping the company stuck in the past. I will stay at MITRE for a maximum of 3 years until I can pay off my student loans. If I can pay my loans off faster, I will resign sooner. I would only recommend working here if you are a lazy person who enjoys putting your life on easy mode. If you are young, ambitious, want aggressive promotions, and are willing to try new things, DO NOT come to MITRE.

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      MITRE Response
      7y
      Thank you for sharing your perspective on MITRE. We are proud to offer industry-leading work/life flexibility and educational benefits for our diverse talent, who are working to solve complex, global-scale problems in areas such as cybersecurity, artificial intelligence and healthcare. Our goal is to attract and retain the world’s top talent—including people with different backgrounds, areas of specialization, and who span different generations. Together, we are advancing MITRE’s good growth strategy. As a not-for-profit, we do not pursue growth for its own sake; rather, we are deliberately working to achieve greater impact for the public good by taking on bigger, cross-cutting projects that require our technical expertise, network of partnerships, and insights as a trusted advisor to multiple government sponsors.
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