Who are we and where are we going? - Anonymous employee MITRE Employee Review

2.0
Feb 6, 2024
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Nice facilities - smart staff - interesting and unique portfolio of work

Cons

Endless VP and C-level staff expansion (more VP+ hires in 3 years than in my own department (as we're RIF'ing tech staff). Cutting back on hiring (even to replace staff who leave voluntarily). Reducing staff benefits and raising prices for the ones that remain with transparent spin to make it sound like a positive. Perplexing priority shifts and focus changes with short fuses that drop out of the sky with the only reason (seemingly) being to "keep up with the Jones's" or because the industry is moving in that direction and we can't be left behind. While there is some logic and truth to that, the rapid changes in direction leave staff and middle management confused on what to focus on in any given moment. If everything is a high priority, then NOTHING can truly become a high priority. It wears on you...

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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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