MITRE CyberSecurity Engineer reviews

Many people left when prior CEO chipped away at benefits again and again. Parts of the company used layoffs to purge experience and expertise for $$ savings, which is against what the company advertises. It kept trainees and even hired new staff during layoffs. Critical positions (finance, security, contracts) are run by people with little to no experience. Hoping those who are left aren't caught with the hot potato...

- Hemorrhaging headcount. Indiscriminate firing of ~3,500 employees between January and December 2025 because their sole customer (the US Government) doesn't see value in FFRDCs. - Government is largely correct in their assessment that MITRE is overpriced for the low-impact, policy paper and systems engineering work that it primarily does. - Completely tone-deaf leadership. CEO waddles out in a gee-whiz, howdy-doody impression during all-hands every other month before announcing another round of layoffs. Board member bizarrely recited poetry and cried during an all-hands. Senior VPs regularly send emails to 1,000s of employees boasting about their frequent travel to Hawaii and Europe while lamenting 100s of people losing their jobs over the same period. - No plan or vision to adapt to reality.