MITRE reviews

3.2

50% would recommend to a friend

(2,671 total reviews)
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Mark Peters

74% approve of CEO

23% positive business outlook

MITRE has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 2,671 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The MITRE employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Government & Public Administration industry (3.6 stars).

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1.0
Sep 6, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

They offer flexible work schedule for some employees.

Cons

Pay and promotion are not based on merit but rather who you know and for whom you do favors. There are many employees who don't do good work (and the government customers say this) but these employees are "protected." The recent struggles of the company are because of the nepotism and protection mindset; the government agencies are refusing to pay for the large overhead fees that fund the non-value-add employees. Benefits are being reduced every year. There is a push to eliminate experienced workers to reduce costs (to the detriment of providing value to government customers). There is limited focus on delivery of quality service to government customers. Used to be a good company but has really gone downhill recently.

3.0
Sep 6, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Everyone I've directly worked with is great, and the work itself is fun and rewarding. Plus, they do a good job at recognizing hard work.

Cons

Management is completely out of touch with the company. Crazy cost-cutting such as removing trash cans from offices so that they can save on janitorial services, removing free lunch and coffee, forcing us to migrate from hard-token 2FA to smartphone-application based 2FA, cutting the bonuses budget so less people can get rewarded for hard work, etc. All this while laying large groups of people off, hiring a ridiculous amount of VP-level personnel with salaries I don't even want to guess at, and telling us that there are no money problems.

1.0
Sep 6, 2023

We are broke

Recommend
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Pros

The revenue bearing staff who show up every day to serve our sponsor missions

Cons

A lot of the reviews indicate MITRE’s culture is bankrupt. More alarming is that the current CEO has actually wiped out our cash reserves and borrowed $200+M to cover his continued ill-advised spending. At the expense of the revenue earning staff, cost cutting measures are just virtue signaling. Taking our trash cans away while hiring yet another VP who will likely require $100k in executive office furniture will not restore our financial standing. Firing the Level 4 who processed EEVs will not offset the tens of millions spent on vanity projects like Engenuity. If we applied actual fiscal common sense today, it will take years to restore our financial equilibrium if we last that long.

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Thank you for providing your perspective as part of our MITRE team. For the last 6 decades, MITRE has been continuously entrusted to operate multiple Federally Funded Research and Development Centers on behalf of our nation’s government. We are immensely proud of the trusted partnerships we have built with our sponsors, partners, and our nation’s public, and our continued strong financial health allows us to actively prioritize investments in critical technical capabilities while supporting our world class talent, creating value as a national resource, and collectively working towards solving problems for a safer world.
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