MITRE Lead Engineer reviews

Jason Providakes as CEO, along with the entire Executive Leadership Team (ELT) have continuously eroded corporate benefits, decimated morale through poorly thought out strategies and frank disregard for employees in multiple communication forms. These cuts are not always communicated, but are frequently felt and later identified by employees (eg. unannounced health care changes for 2023 which greatly increased prescription costs). The ELT also continues to erode trust by making significant cuts and later having to partially walk some back due to a lack of research and a later realization that the benefits cuts would put MITRE in a precarious legal situation with state law. Additionally, part of the benefits cuts we are seeing includes cutting either Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Juneteenth (added 2022), or Veteran's Day as an observed holiday depending on which holidays you choose elect to take off as a "flex holiday" meaning that the ELT truthfully doesn't care about inclusion and diversity, and that it's merely a show.

Corporate leadership under the most recent CEO is inconsistent, condescending, and uncertain. Executive leadership refuses to explain the reasons or mentality of current growth strategy to employees - claims company is doing great financially while cutting benefits to experienced staff. Staff at large are increasingly discontent and concerned about the direction the company is heading, which can seemingly only be seen or understood by the executive leadership. Leadership team grandstands on frequent company wide calls, introducing new VP after new VP, but refuses to answer meaningful questions or address concerns. CEO goes off-script and is arrogant and condescending in what replies are provided, claiming we have no right to complain because he is also losing vacation days when benefits are cut (while getting a large annual raise). Major decisions are seemingly made on a whim, like attempting to force a large swath of the company to use one week of paid-time-off, only to backtrack at the last second because of unpopularity. All while refusing to fully explain why it is necessary. Or, claiming to have evaluated a reduction in holidays "very carefully" only to discover that whoops, it is illegal to not give us Labor Day off. The impression is one of major decisions being made without care, without foresight, and without proper communication to those that they affect.