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3.2

50% would recommend to a friend

(596 total reviews)
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Mark Peters

74% approve of CEO

23% positive business outlook

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4.1

Work/Life balance

3.5

Diversity & inclusion

3.5

Compensation and benefits

3.3

Culture & values

3.0

Career opportunities

2.7

Senior management

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596 reviews

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3.0
Sep 6, 2023

Great teams, not-so-great leadership

Systems administrator
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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

Managing director, corporate finance
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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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MITRE Response
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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.
3.0
Sep 4, 2023

Solid Choice for Middle-Class Neoliberal Late Capitalism Comfortable Living

Senior cybersecurity engineer
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Pros

The whole federal consulting field allows for a nice pipeline from taxpayer, to government, to government employees, who are wealthy enough to themselves be taxpayers but not so wealthy as to avoid taxes. So the compensation is great. If you can stick to your principle and accept only work for the agencies that you believe in, you can look at yourself in the mirror every morning. As of now, there are some work from home options, but the company has been signaling that it will take those away for over a year now.

Cons

There’s no way this whole enterprise stays financially viable for the next ten years. Salaries are competitive with private sector, but budgets are not. There will be a reckoning. Also, like every other company I’ve ever seen or worked for, efforts at diversity and inclusion are window dressing, and ultimately designed to maintain a delicate status quo.

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