MITRE reviews

- The "find your own projects" model should theoretically allow you to get on projects that you really enjoy, but it often leads to frantically searching to fill a coverage gap and taking whatever possible work comes your way. - RTO is the latest in a series of management decisions that only act to degrade employee morale. There simply isn't enough office space to accommodate everyone, so employees are finding themselves working from random hallways across campus. How is this supposed to make us more efficient, again? It feels like an arbitrary change even when the previous policy was working perfectly fine. - Lack of impact. While MITRE certainly has had a lot of success over the years, it seems a large portion of the projects don't pick up steam and end up sitting unfinished for "possible future funding". - As others have mentioned, upper management has a major disconnect with the employees. I understand that sometimes less-than-ideal changes need to be made, but poor communication of those changes only makes the issue worse.

* Lots of infighting over small and big things which disrupts work * Inventors and innovators not as well respected by internal backoffice functions like finance and commercialization as other organizations. Was treated like a burden * government sometimes confused if company still a not-for-profit * Easy for project and task leaders to give feedback on employees but very little opportunity to give honest feedback upwards about individual leaders It was not all CEO driven. It has been growing for a while and won’t disappear with a senior leadership change