Excellent benefits and great colleagues - Lead Cybersecurity Engineer MITRE Employee Review

5.0
May 14, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

The work is very unique and we are working in the public interest. We get to act as a trusted third party which allows third parties to trust us with their IP in order to perform more accurate research. You can do work for both government and industry and you can make contributions to the ever-expanding ATT&CK framework. The benefits are fantastic and the 401k match more than makes up for any other shortcomings.

Cons

There are some barriers to execution because some at the company are still stuck in the government mindset of moving at a snails pace and not taking risk. Additionally, there is a push by many people at the company to improve diversity and inclusion, however, there is more that leadership could do to enable success.

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

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