Jan 22, 2024
MITRE reviews
3.2
50% would recommend to a friend
Mark Peters
74% approve of CEO
23% positive business outlook
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4.0
Jan 22, 2024
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I don't think MITRE is a bad place to work, but it is quickly falling behind in the industry. From an early career perspective: - Salaries aren't mind blowing, but I feel it's still strong and competitive. It was the highest offer I received for my field by a decent margin. - Benefits remain pretty good... for now. However, they seem to be slowly and steadily degrading them, so who knows where it stops. The education benefits are currently amazing. - Work is challenging and engaging; I feel I'm putting my engineering degree to good use and am consistently improving my technical skills. - Relative stability; not as much of a threat of mass layoffs like you are seeing in tech companies - Good work-life balance. I've only had to work after hours a handful of times, and most of those weren't 100% necessary. This may vary by position.
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- 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.
2.0
Jan 19, 2024
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* Reverse commute was possible * Retirement plan was good * Some pockets of company genuinely were trying to improve corporate culture one step at a time * SVPs make themselves available * Good availability and accessibility for food given campus is not particularly close to anything * Very smart people on multiple projects but some snobbery and ego between disciplines (especially cyber background) * easier to achieve a slower pace of life
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* 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
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