Dysfunctional Workplace - Engineer MITRE Employee Review

1.0
Mar 10, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Up until about 2020, this used to be a great company to work for. The work is often times cutting edge and innovative, challenging us in good ways. My immediate colleagues are nearly always wonderful to work with. Sometimes we have a difference of opinion but it usually feels like healthy debate as we then find a mutually agreed upon path forward.

Cons

As I mentioned, this place started changing around 2020 following a major reorganization. Since then, there has been a massive influx of VPs and SVPs, many of whom are not able to articulate their vision and fail to connect with the larger workforce. Senior leadership decisions, direction, and communication are reactionary, confusing, inconsistent, and at times detrimental to employee morale. All signs indicate that the company is going through financial challenges. They cut our PTO and holidays and are suddenly doing random webinars on what makes up our overhead and fringe rates. We have grown in number of bodies but I don’t see that we are growing in skills and knowledge. And with all this growth, a lot of staff are short on project work. There are just so many things off right now and all together they make for a negative experience as an employee.

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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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