MITRE reviews

Truly the worst executive leadership team out there. The disgraced CEO is retiring, but taking 11 months to do so when he should have been fired for running morale, financials, and respect of sponsors into the ground. FAR TOO MANY NEW EXECUTIVES at MITRE who don't listen to employees. Eroding benefits. Civic time reduced by 80%. Leave reduced. No sick days. No funding available for professional development. Secret layoffs. Draconian return-to-office policy for company that was highly productive working remotely. Corporate surveys show consistent steady decline in morale and confidence of leadership. Nobody listening at the top.

Director-level+ leadership tends to drink/pour the corp cool-aid, which is tone-deaf and insulting to our intelligence to say the least. They recently updated their hybrid work model to include minimum 50% on-site time and a fixed in-office weekday for each sector, rather than something practical - like a minimum of two office days and letting depts/teams choose which in-office days work the best for them and the mission. Also, senior leadership has instituted layoffs and cut benefits significantly in recent years, which might be understandable for necessary cost control...but neither of these measures were applied to senior leadership.