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      3.2

      50% would recommend to a friend

      (502 total reviews)
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      Mark Peters

      73% approve of CEO

      22% positive business outlook

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      4.0

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      3.5

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.5

      Compensation and benefits

      3.3

      Culture & values

      3.0

      Career opportunities

      2.6

      Senior management

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      5.0
      Jul 7, 2020

      Enjoying working at MITRE

      Senior health policy analyst
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      Pros

      - Good work / life balance - Opportunities for variety in work (if you want to learn something new, or work on something new, you can do that within the organizations) - Fairly transparent leadership - Competitive salary for the public health field - Opportunities for professional development and learning and growing - Flexibility (in work location, work hours, etc)

      Cons

      - Sometimes work feels rushed and perhaps a bit focused on pleasing the sponsor sometimes at the cost of being thorough and data-informed - A decent amount of turnover in leadership and organizational structure - Buzzwords for organizational structure and business strategy don't always seem like the clearest way of communicating strategy

      2.0
      Jul 4, 2020

      Poor CEO Leadership and Too Many Changes

      Software engineer
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      Pros

      MITRE offers a tremendous amount of autonomy and flexibility to employees. Most staff have the ability to traverse projects across MITRE's many FFRDC's. This allows staff to follow growth opportunities and get away from stagnant or less-impactful projects. On the personal side, MITRE's flextime benefit is amazing and allows you to make your own workday outside of obligations that have to be met (meetings and deliverable deadlines). Benefits are excellent and pay is good, although benefits have been slowly lessened in the past several years (health insurance cuts, paid time off flexibility, etc..) COVID response and ability of company to telework are impressive. Financials are incredibly strong. If you are in agreement with leadership's politics and don't mind treading the waters of bureaucracy to make a decent living, I would recommend MITRE to others.

      Cons

      MITRE culture has been rapidly deteriorating with the endorsement of certain political and social viewpoints/values (but not others). Likewise, C suite level leadership is a revolving door and the CEO has done a very poor job of implementing change, communicating vision, and keeping MITRE a non-partisan, apolitical place to perform impactful work for the US Government. Our campuses (headquarters) are top notch. Some sites are not. If you are applying for a position outside of Bedford or Mclean make sure you visit in person before accepting the position. MITRE is still top-heavy with a bunch of level 5 and 6 leadership that doesn't do much of anything. Technical career advancement can be tough, and most level 4's ad 5's (mid level employees) are non-technical to the point that it becomes burdensome to Level 1, 2, and 3 staff who actually have current engineering competency. Our organizational structure is not conducive to the way we aim to support our sponsors. This may change with the current re-organization, but I doubt it with Jason Providakes in charge.

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      At MITRE, we are proud of our mission and our employees who deliver impactful work in service of the public interest. Offering growth opportunities, flexibility and excellent benefits are part of our commitment to providing our employees with experiences to grow, thrive and prosper. Our innovative approach, technical know-how and objective insight are exemplified in our collective response as an organization to COVID-19, and also in the work that we do every day. With the support of our Board of Trustees, we recently announced changes resulting in a more seamless organization that enables greater agility, speed, and boldness while driving excellence through collaboration and innovation. These decisions are never taken lightly; they are deliberate, thought-through, and grounded in our corporate strategy. We continue to be a non-partisan organization that operates in the public interest by being innovative on multiple levels to deliver solutions to our sponsors and partners to make our world a safer place. As pioneers for a better future, we are proud to provide an environment where all of us can safely and openly discuss the current events we face in our communities and work to solve—in partnership with others—some of the biggest challenges facing our society today.
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