MITRE Senior Security Engineer reviews

- Limited technical career path. "Moving up" generally suggests becoming a group or project lead, or working more with sponsor, but still doesn't encourage a solid technical leadership path. - Underwhelming opportunities to support government work - Extremely "top heavy", not doing enough (and not always enough interesting technical work) to retain talented junior/senior level engineers. - Internal research program funds lackluster projects that sound buzzy but lack substance. Many groups are trying and failing to turn fuzzy concepts into formulas. Gets distracted with imaginary 100% solutions, but fails to take more practical steps that make high impact. - Pay has come a long way, but still not competitive in the security space, especially for cleared employees. - 80% of overall time/effort is spent managing work or convincing government (or internal) of work to be done, but 20% is the workforce contributing to projects. Feels like an inverted pyramid.

It feels like it is dominated by older management that doesn't always seem to quite understand the needs of the younger employees. Attrition lately seems to be a theme, but that also gives more opportunities for those of us who stick around to turn it around.