MITRE reviews

3.2

48% would recommend to a friend

(2,663 total reviews)
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Mark Peters

72% approve of CEO

20% positive business outlook

MITRE has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 2,663 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
Dec 29, 2025

Don't work here

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Pros

- Generous 401k match after 1 year

Cons

- Hemorrhaging headcount. Indiscriminate firing of ~3,500 employees between January and December 2025 because their sole customer (the US Government) doesn't see value in FFRDCs. - Government is largely correct in their assessment that MITRE is overpriced for the low-impact, policy paper and systems engineering work that it primarily does. - Completely tone-deaf leadership. CEO waddles out in a gee-whiz, howdy-doody impression during all-hands every other month before announcing another round of layoffs. Board member bizarrely recited poetry and cried during an all-hands. Senior VPs regularly send emails to 1,000s of employees boasting about their frequent travel to Hawaii and Europe while lamenting 100s of people losing their jobs over the same period. - No plan or vision to adapt to reality.

3.0
Dec 28, 2025

Many changes

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Pros

The people are great to work with

Cons

Limited opportunity for advancement and growth. Much uncertianty.

1.0
Dec 26, 2025

Ship of fools

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Pros

None that I can think of

Cons

Everything — but what stands out is incompetent management and the persistent failure to meet the needs sponsors

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