MITRE reviews

Zero accountability for bad decision making by executive leaders. Consequences for their lack of budget oversight are distributed to employees in the form of cuts to benefits. Salaries and benefits (i.e. total compensation) are not keeping up with competitors. Executive leaders seem to think they can gaslight employees into believing their compensation package is still competitive when it’s clearly not. Unsurprisingly, the majority of the high performing staff are either eyeing the door or have already left.

MITRE has lost its way. Executive leadership is laser focused on growth and alignment with left-leaning political agendas. This has caused much of our company overhead to be devoted to improving social causes such as social justice reform and climate change with no clear explanation why a system’s engineering company operating FFRDCs should be involved with this type of work. Millions have been poured into initiatives with seemingly zero ROI except a new tainted reputation for political bias and lost objectivity. Millions were poured into company platforms with negligible results. The concept of building true value for the average American instead of a utopian vision crafted by elites is lost on the current C suite. We need drastic change to right this ship. Instead we see doubling down on the same pursuits and policies that led us here. The poison of “wokeness” appears here to stay with an almost obsessive focus on diversifying employees and leadership based on people’s immutable characteristics alone. Lip service is paid to the idea of merit based promotion and advancement while the true celebration and focus is on arbitrary diversity stats.