MITRE reviews

They have cut benefits numerous times. Senior management is out of step with employees who actually do the work. Senior management treats us like idiots by announcing that decisions like the one made today (to cut hybrid employment benefits) with an air like they're doing us a favor. They announce they cut PTO to keep healthcare benefits, they cut healthcare benefits so we can keep a flexible work schedule and now they say we can't have a flexible work schedule. I'd be offended that they're blatantly lying to us if I didn't think that senior management has no actual idea of what they're doing either.

Unless you plan on working at this company for the rest of your life, joining MITRE as a software engineer is career suicide. There are no code reviews, no design reviews, no writing tests, no operations experience for software engineers, no thought is given to scalability, maintainability, testability, or reliability. I understand that the work MITRE does is mostly proof-of-concept/prototyping and is not developing and maintaining production systems, but the bar for software development here is so low it is shameful. Any critical feedback on a design or implementation is taken as a personal attack and triggers an emotional response. Project leaders have no idea how to gather requirements or shape work for software projects and end up over promising and under delivering for sponsors often with wildly absurd timelines that seem to come entirely out of the blue. And the requirement of finding work at this company means that I'm scared to push back on anything in fear that I'll be cut from a project or something. Despite the mostly great things I had heard about MITRE prior to joining, I cannot express enough how disappointed I am in this company. Not to mention all the benefit cuts that have happened in just the year since I've started. I thought that I would be proud to work at a place like MITRE but now I'm not so sure.