MITRE reviews

As a consulting firm, the same pressures of getting work do apply, and MITRE has traditionally not done as good of a job in working with outside entities or partnering with top organizations, although there is management pressure to do so. In a company of 9000 people, though, it's easy to just think about your skills and your team's potential, and not think about what could be done by partnering with the outside world. That said, if you want to grow at MITRE, you really do have to spend time on work that is not billable to customers, such as writing proposals.

- The "find your own projects" model should theoretically allow you to get on projects that you really enjoy, but it often leads to frantically searching to fill a coverage gap and taking whatever possible work comes your way. - RTO is the latest in a series of management decisions that only act to degrade employee morale. There simply isn't enough office space to accommodate everyone, so employees are finding themselves working from random hallways across campus. How is this supposed to make us more efficient, again? It feels like an arbitrary change even when the previous policy was working perfectly fine. - Lack of impact. While MITRE certainly has had a lot of success over the years, it seems a large portion of the projects don't pick up steam and end up sitting unfinished for "possible future funding". - As others have mentioned, upper management has a major disconnect with the employees. I understand that sometimes less-than-ideal changes need to be made, but poor communication of those changes only makes the issue worse.