MITRE has always been a great place to work, but - Anonymous MITRE Employee Review

1.0
Aug 12, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

MITRE provides a great work environment and good salaries and benefits. I've been proud to work there for many years for the work we do on behalf of the nation. The MITRE covid response has been a model for all other companies to follow.

Cons

the Sr. management team, led by Jason Providakes is working to turn MITRE into a commercial type company. Leadership is destroying the MITRE culture that was so long a valued part of the company's legacy. We don't need to be like everyone else. And the recent reorganizations of the past few years along with mass lay offs and forced retirements has caused a huge drain on the talent pool within the company. Its been very sad to see so many dedicated, smart people, and their wealth of MITRE experience and knowledge, just tossed aside like they don't matter any more.

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5.0
Jun 5, 2026
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Pros

Good work life balance, not too competitive

Cons

Slightly lower comp compared to other for profit companies in the area

3.0
Jan 23, 2023
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Pros

Great diversity, quality of life and staff. Been with MITRE over 20 years.

Cons

Too many VP,s that are not held accountable. Company recently RIF'd 24 staff from FAA FFRDC, due to dropping gov't funding...yet company has significant number of VPs all sucking off of overhead. No attempt to manage money within the "leadership" ranks. Last year company went through a major business transformation...that failed...yet, VPs held staff accountable for reporting on a subpar system that lasted over 12 months. Could not even get business data to report to gov't for over 2 months, yet, person who was in charge of the business transformation is still at MITRE. If this happened to any other MITRE employee, they would've been gone. Oddly enough the person in charge of the business transformation is the CEOs brother. Amazing how that happens. He'll probably get a bonus because of his substandard performance. MITRE recently invested in opening up an office in Australia. All on company overhead. significant large numbers of VPs travelling out to "visit"...yet company has the audacity to reduce benefits as part of cost cutting measures. Company has now taken on a "for profit" mentality. It's all about delivery... so VPS and GMs can spend, spend, spend. Board of Directors should take a good look at what is happening and make some swift changes from the CEO on down. BOD should also implement an independent IG like entity to investigate what is seeming like waste, fraud and abuse by CEO, GMs and VPs. Time for the Fat Cats to get purged!!!

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