MITRE Lead Systems Engineer reviews

2.6

22% would recommend to a friend

(32 total reviews)
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Mark Peters

100% approve of CEO

10% positive business outlook

Lead Systems Engineer employees have rated MITRE with 2.6 out of 5 stars, based on 32 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Lead Systems Engineer professionals have an average working experience there. MITRE is rated 28% below average by Lead Systems Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Government & Public Administration industry (3.6 stars).

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32 reviews
5.0
Aug 28, 2021

Amazing workplace

Recommend
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Pros

Interesting and meaningful projects, great benefits, authentic coworkers. Support for education and risk taking.

Cons

Some bureaucracy. Lower level employees sometimes disconnected from upper management.

1.0
Feb 5, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Pay and Benefits are good

Cons

The company specializes in being pedantic. I've often said MITRE is very good at "admiring the problem" instead of solving it. MITRE "engineers" like to proffer their expertise, which is highly inflated, to government programs to make the problem space more complicated. Rather than closing the problem to make better decisions for the government, they offer lots of caveats and "yeah, buts..." I suggest everyone at MITRE read Kill Chain by Christian Brose and take a long hard look in the mirror. Our adversaries are strategically defeating us, and bickering and arguing about communications protocols is literally making it worse. Building a better widget is NOT what the DOD needs When they fired Al Grasso as CEO, he said offered some works of wisdom on his way out regarding MITRE's future. Paraphrasing, he said "it'll depend if MITRE is seen as part of the problem or part of the solution." I can assure MITRE is part of the problem

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