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      3.2

      49% would recommend to a friend

      (503 total reviews)
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      Mark Peters

      73% approve of CEO

      22% positive business outlook

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      4.0

      Work/Life balance

      3.5

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.5

      Compensation and benefits

      3.3

      Culture & values

      3.0

      Career opportunities

      2.6

      Senior management

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      1.0
      Sep 9, 2023

      Glad I Left

      Senior software engineer
      Recommend
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      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Interesting and unique work. Intelligent colleagues.

      Cons

      Basically everything else. This company is a sinking ship. People are realizing they are vastly underpaid, MITRE benefits are not competitive, and everyone is overworked. Furthermore, the CEO is a self centered, empathy-less, corporate stooge. He literally laughs at people bringing up the fact that compensation has lagged inflation massively. I get that inflation doesn't affect him with his nearly 2 million dollar salary, but those in the trenches have seen real tangible effects. Return to office is nonsense, some of the most productive years at MITRE were during COVID when everyone was remote. The CEO offers zero concrete evidence as to why this is necessary besides vibes and "other CEOs are doing it". Finally, the financial situation at this company is unstable. Projects are perpetually underfunded, staff are asked to work essentially two jobs for the price of one, and hiring is impossible.

      3.0
      Sep 6, 2023

      Great teams, not-so-great leadership

      Systems administrator
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      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.

      3.0
      Sep 4, 2023

      Not what I heard it would be

      Safety
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Decent benefits, though not as good as they believe it to be. Good 401(k), good medical. Vacation is sub par, with sick days mixed in, and max's out much lower than other industry companies. Excellent diversity in actions and relationships. I've never seen a negative diversity issue. People genuinely want to help the world and some of the finest minds are inside MITRE. If you have a thick skin and can put up with a lot of people with inflated egos, you'll be fine.

      Cons

      The company has incestuous, group-think, leadership. Getting ahead in MITRE is not based on performance, as they tout. It is truly how well you promote the fact that you promote MITRE as being a great company. People share any mention of MITRE in the press as a great celebration. This group think causes many to be blind to faults inside MITRE. #1: There is so much suckling on the government dime that there is a genuine FEAR of offending a government sponsor. Even if there are serious issues in what the sponsor says or believe, you cannot address it head on. You are only allowed to hint or hope that the sponsor will change. This is particularly true of public sector FFRDC work. #2: If you are hired from the government, you will enter MITRE at a pay level above the equivalent hire from industry, This is a bias that I wish qualified for an EEO complaint, because it is rampant. It also fuels the group-think, government suckling mind-set. #3: There is huge amount of waste inside MITRE making it hard for it to be competitive. Advice for eliminating waste is ignored by leadership, because when they think about it, they realize that the company is top heavy and to eliminate waste will eliminate the need for as many leaders. #4: The top leaders are elitist that have vocalized on webcasts a disdain for the rank and file asking legitimate, but hard, questions. Those with legitimate scientific concerns on MITRE's COVID-19 stance were openly ridiculed, even when quoting peer reviewed studies.

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