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      3.2

      49% would recommend to a friend

      (2,671 total reviews)
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      Mark Peters

      73% approve of CEO

      22% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.0

      Work/Life balance

      3.5

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.5

      Compensation and benefits

      3.3

      Culture & values

      3.0

      Career opportunities

      2.6

      Senior management

      MITRE has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 2,671 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
      4.0
      Oct 19, 2016

      Collaborative environment

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      Very good domain knowledge and great people truly trying to change the federal government for more efficiency and better services. A lot of passion to do the right thing.

      Cons

      Company is top heavy and doesn't present a lot of opportunities for young employees. A lot of people love hear themselves talk and work is done by the youngest employees.

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      MITRE Response
      9y
      Thanks for your review! Glad to hear you enjoyed being part of the team here.
      3.0
      Oct 17, 2016

      A tale of two MITREs...

      Systems engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      If you work in the tech centers there are flexible work arrangements, reward outside the box thinking and encourage creativity. However if you work in the project/customer facing departments there is an entirely different mentality (see cons). There are really great problems to work on challenges for the federal government, and if you aren't happy on one project, most managers help you move to other projects as needed. Some people like that its a non-profit.

      Cons

      Some managers are really old school and at times the company moves just as slowly, ineffectively and painfully as the government. Since they took 30 years to get where they are, they try to hold employees back with the mentality they also need to "pay their time". This is inconsistent across the company, but you have to know which type of department you're getting hired into. Aim for the tech centers instead of the projects/programs departments, they are more innovative. Benefits like flex time and other conveniences are also not allowed for employees in a standardized way, though they are advertised by the company, it is manager dependent. There is also this strange scramble at the end of the govt fiscal year to make people take time off or work more to try and spend their budgets exactly down to the dollar. Then at the beginning of a new year, people get dropped from projects and are expected to find new work when there aren't openings... no way to manage people.

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      MITRE Response
      9y
      We're glad you enjoyed diverse array of work here. As we partner with government sponsors, we work hard to ensure that we help them find the right solutions to their challenges. We try to manage benefits and flextime as equitably to all employees as possible. There are some cases where that is more difficult, such as when employees work on highly sensitive programs and may not be able to work from home. However, we compensate these employees with flexibility in other ways.
      4.0
      Oct 17, 2016

      software engineer

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
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      Pros

      benefits and work-life balance. Also you get to start your own project if you have a nice idea

      Cons

      since the company is doing mainly r&d/ prototypes, they don't necessarily follow best software practices which is a down point if you try to switch jobs later or it you're fresh out of college

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      MITRE Response
      9y
      Glad to hear that you're enjoying the work and benefits here!
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