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      Great place to work before the Purges. - Anonymous employee MITRE Employee Review

      2.0
      Jun 12, 2019
      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      The old MITRE, I miss thee. There used to be a culture of investment in employees. Management meant it, too. The talent level also used to be quite high. It's dropping now that we're pushing out people who weren't self-promoters but were world-class experts in their field. Without the old hands to learn from, what's going to motivate the young?

      Cons

      We've had recent layoffs and firings "for performance" that actually have to do with senior management monitoring people's social media accounts and getting rid of the ones whose political beliefs the managers personally disagree with. A lot of this is people just being horrible because, in the Age of Trump, they can. Although not everything MITRE does is related to the DoD, there's definitely a DoD-driven culture here, and it's only getting worse. Finally, this practice of getting rid of people who are about to retire, or pushing people out when mild disabilities are discovered, is the opposite of what MITRE used to stand for.

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      At MITRE, growing our team and strengthening our culture are two integral pieces of our good growth strategy enabling us to deliver impact for our sponsors. We are proud to have a talented, diverse and multigenerational team at MITRE. By cultivating diversity of all types, and creating teams inclusive of differences, we deliver innovative, well-rounded solutions that serve the public interest and make the world a safer place. We do not tolerate discriminatory behavior of any kind, including imposing personal beliefs or views on anyone in the organization. If you have a specific complaint please contact our Office of Ethics and Compliance, ethics@mitre.org. If you prefer to remain anonymous, we recommend that you contact our employee hotline (800-MITRE-4U) or online reporting service (mycompliancereport.com).

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      5.0
      May 28, 2026
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      Pros

      Supportive leadership Interesting work Work/life balance

      Cons

      Searching for projects at times Funding challenges

      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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