Can I give a negative rating ? - Engineer MITRE Employee Review

1.0
Aug 28, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

The pros are dwindling but there are still some fantastic people to learn from. The campus is well kept. Nice gym.

Cons

After 30 years , MITRE has become a place of talk with little walk . How many more VPs can we bring on from Booze Allen . I urge you after reading this to see their credentials . Psychology , travel , communications and of course systems engineers that haven't seemed to ever oversee a real system .LOL. Of course, salaries in the 250 to 300 k range are hard to turn down but, Mitre engineers at the VP level and fellows from my day had real credentials and would lay waste to these new so called leaders. No comparing technical ability , work ethic and dedication to company and country like the people I remeber , Ronald Fante , Betz,,Mike Butler . I could go on. We now have a political , Woke , workspace that doesn't work for what MITRE is, I guess supposed to be. It might be a great model for a poetry school, art school or a job as a house representative .But we were supposed to solve problems quickly and efficiently . I 'm not seeing it . Other posts seem to agree. I see very little innovative work . There are a few reverse engineering projects that are interesting but far more time and effort is put into Woke, political , feel good groups.

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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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