How fast can leadership alienate current and potential employees? - Principal MITRE Employee Review

1.0
Jun 10, 2024
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Pros

Most fellow project team members are hard-working and dedicated to supporting sponsors as best as possible

Cons

Within the Public Sector, leadership promotes only those who kiss up, completely disregarding what will make the company more functional and earn sponsors' respect and drive more work. Staff is being blamed for the company's inability to secure new projects and accused of being intransigent or refusing to adapt. Delusional ideas that MITRE is uniquely positioned to solve the toughest issues, when the company gets lapped regularly by US Digital Services, Booz, and smaller companies. Instead of doing the hard work to see how MITRE can adapt and change, it goes all-in on a 1990s mind set and is doomed to years of regression before the Board clues in and cleans house. Why they allowed a CEO failure to determine his own exit date is beyond inexcusable. The company has earned its bad public reputation and good staff will be hard to come by, further making its self-imposed problems even more entrenched.

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MITRE Response
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Thank you for your candid feedback - all input from our staff is extremely important to us and we welcome the opportunity to address it. MITRE continues to be deeply committed to ensuring fairness and objectivity across all our employee programs, including career advancement. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, that recruits, employs, trains, compensates, and promotes regardless of age; ancestry; color; family medical or genetic information; gender identity and expression; marital, military, or veteran status; national and ethnic origin; physical or mental disability; political affiliation; pregnancy; race; religion; sex; sexual orientation; and any other protected characteristics. Our career and growth programs take an integrated approach that enables career development through clear and consistent pathways across our company. And like our entire suite of employee programs, it enables an environment where our talent can grow, thrive, and prosper and do the critical work that continues MITRE’s reputation as a national resource. So much so that this year, MITRE’s 65th anniversary was honored in a Congressional Record highlighting the “significant footprint MITRE has left on modern society.” Read more about MITRE’s recognition here: https://www.congress.gov/118/crec/2024/01/12/170/7/CREC-2024-01-12-pt1-PgE35-3.pdf and learn more about our cutting-edge, impactful work here: https://www.mitre.org/news-insights.

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