Strong Work and Customer Engagement, but Leadership Culture is Concerning - Lead Data Scientist MITRE Employee Review

2.0
Mar 10, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

The work itself was meaningful and offered strong growth potential. There were opportunities to work closely with customers, and those interactions were often exceptional and rewarding. Many of the teams were talented and committed to delivering good outcomes, and the mission of the work could be motivating at times.

Cons

Unfortunately, the senior leadership culture significantly detracted from the experience. The leadership class at Meyer created an environment that often felt aggressive, dismissive, and unnecessarily confrontational. In many situations it felt like a “dog-eat-dog” atmosphere where employees were belittled or pressured rather than supported. During COVID, leadership communication and behavior toward employees were particularly disappointing. Rather than showing empathy or professionalism during a difficult period, some leadership messaging came across as mocking or dismissive of employee concerns. This contributed to a culture that felt inconsiderate and unkind during an already stressful time. Because of the leadership environment and management approach, I would not recommend the company as a place to work.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
Jan 23, 2023
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Pros

Great diversity, quality of life and staff. Been with MITRE over 20 years.

Cons

Too many VP,s that are not held accountable. Company recently RIF'd 24 staff from FAA FFRDC, due to dropping gov't funding...yet company has significant number of VPs all sucking off of overhead. No attempt to manage money within the "leadership" ranks. Last year company went through a major business transformation...that failed...yet, VPs held staff accountable for reporting on a subpar system that lasted over 12 months. Could not even get business data to report to gov't for over 2 months, yet, person who was in charge of the business transformation is still at MITRE. If this happened to any other MITRE employee, they would've been gone. Oddly enough the person in charge of the business transformation is the CEOs brother. Amazing how that happens. He'll probably get a bonus because of his substandard performance. MITRE recently invested in opening up an office in Australia. All on company overhead. significant large numbers of VPs travelling out to "visit"...yet company has the audacity to reduce benefits as part of cost cutting measures. Company has now taken on a "for profit" mentality. It's all about delivery... so VPS and GMs can spend, spend, spend. Board of Directors should take a good look at what is happening and make some swift changes from the CEO on down. BOD should also implement an independent IG like entity to investigate what is seeming like waste, fraud and abuse by CEO, GMs and VPs. Time for the Fat Cats to get purged!!!

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