MITRE System Engineer reviews

3.1

51% would recommend to a friend

(123 total reviews)
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Mark Peters

74% approve of CEO

25% positive business outlook

Systems Engineer employees have rated MITRE with 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 123 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Systems Engineer professionals have a good working experience there. MITRE is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Systems Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Government & Public Administration industry (3.6 stars).

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123 reviews
1.0
Mar 7, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

MITRE has a good mission. Work/life balance is excellent.

Cons

MITRE is distracted from their mission. MITRE is overweight on senior leadership (VP and above) that is not based in reality. They just don't get it. They talk about good pay and benefits while cutting paid time off and not coming close to last year's rate of inflation. Leadership seems distracted by programs that have nothing to do with their good mission, i.e., DEI. At the same time, the age of the average employee is decreasing. There's a reason for that. MITRE has, and will continue to lose their good talent at an accelerating rate, but I do not believe leadership cares. It's all about generating churn. Government sponsors will care when they start to take notice. Fearless Leader will be leaving the company this year, presumably by the request of the Board; that's a plus. By the way, rate MITRE with 1 star for DEI performance because MITRE's DEI does not treat all equally.

1.0
Feb 29, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Nothing at present. This used to be a great company

Cons

Senior management cuts benefits on a regular basis - vacation, health and on it goes. All of their interactions with employees are not to be believed.

1.0
Feb 22, 2024

Dysfunctional Leadership

Recommend
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Pros

Some wonderful colleagues that are brilliant and dedicated to the work that we do.

Cons

The executive leadership team includes dysfunctional and corrupt leaders that are out of touch with the mission and the workforce. The ELT and Officers enjoy first class flights while simulating authorizating staff layoffs. The CEO holds all employee meetings and speaks nothing about our mission or our future direction. Instead, he and his puppets talk about the great work they are doing with figuring out office space and how they are developing magical plans to improve communication across the enterprise. Sigh. This place has become a joke. The ELT continually promotes themselves with a new title every few months. The CEO even promoted a notorious bully and microagressor to a VP role. The corruption runs deep and the dysfunction even deeper.

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