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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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      3K reviews
      2.0
      Mar 25, 2009

      Some Interesting technical work, but brown-nosing and favoritism are required for advancement.

      Lead engineer
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      Pros

      The best reasons to work for MITRE are the retirement plan and the flex-time schedule. With the company contribution, an employee is able to contribute over 25% of salary a year to his or her 403(b) and 401(a) plans. Flex-time permits employees to work 40 hours at essentially any time during the week.

      Cons

      The biggest downsides of working at MITRE are that the company is way over-managed, and politics are so predominant that promotion requires a heavy dose of brown-nosing and favoritism. Managers literally market each other through meeting, viewgraphs, and programmatics. Advancement depends on hooking up with a sponsor who gets you promoted regardless of technical competence.

      4.0
      Mar 24, 2009

      Secure and flexible workplace

      senior sys engineer
      Recommend
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      Pros

      The best reason to work for MITRE is the job security and the flexible work schedule. Job security is based on the fact MITRE has rarely if ever had a layoff. MITRE is limited by Congress as to how many engineers they can provide to clients. This limit is always smaller than the client requests. So there is always demand for MITRE support. This provides security. MITRE policy is that the worker must put in 40 hours of work from Monday morning through Sunday night. So as long as your supervisor and client go along, the worker can flex hours as needed.

      Cons

      The assignments can be confusing and unrewarding because of the client we work for (Fed government). There is an arrogance to Federal workers that the world revolves around them. They do make the decisions but many are not open to looking at facts. They have their own private views and reasons for doing something, so they disregard other inputs. Many times I can see problems coming because of 29 years in engineering, but am ignored and end up having to fix something that could have been prevented. The biggest disappointment is that the warfighter suffers with less than the best equipment and the tax payer suffers because the costs run out of control.

      4.0
      Mar 9, 2009

      Great place for technical development

      Senior communications engineer
      Recommend
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      Pros

      Base Pay compensation, 403b match of %10.83 when you contribute 12%, generous vacation time allocated at 23 days, flexible work schedules, great technical development through MITRE institute with excellent education resources as well as tuition assistance program, great technical mentors in the field of your choice, satisfaction in supporting Department of Defense and and other government agencies, as a non-profit company the work is focused on value versus making a profit.

      Cons

      MITRE Corporation is very "Top Heavy" which promotions and recognition is harder to get. As a Federally funded research and development center (FFRDC), the manpower allocated is limited by congress which at times is hard to get additional staff to support the projects as well as the downside that needing to reduce staff to meet the staffing due to overburning or too much staff working on the projects. The issue with this is that because of the manpower limit, project cannot simply increase number of staff to support it without approval. There are internal politics that can really cloud the big picture especially when dealing with a government bureaucrat. Raises a nominal and moves inline with what the government receives.

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