MITRE reviews

I have years of working experience with technology start up companies. The speed of development was exhilarating. At this contractor shop, many of my co-workers are not technical (without engineering degree training) and many managers' resume (their resumes are online) include graduate degrees that are useless for technical work. My old companies have less than 20 percent managers to engineers ratio, here at MITRE it is reversed. That's a lot of overhead money wasted. The speed of technical project is very slow, old, and drags on and on... At least I have technical skills and formal education to start (for now), I really don't think I can be excited in this type of older organizations.

The salaries are low, and it is difficult to get promoted. The easiest way to get promoted seems to be to leave the company and return. There are too many middle managers who have very little relationship with their employees. Many departments have managers, associate department heads and department heads, and each is entrenched. Another issue that I saw over 10+ years at MITRE is that many people are forced out of their positions over personality conflict, age or cost-related issues.