Used to be a great place to work - Senior Cyber Engineer MITRE Employee Review

3.0
Dec 16, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

fantastic benefits and work life balance, decent compensation, interesting project work, ability to move around/try different workstreams to find what you like (especially useful for early career folks) benefits include: - 10% match on 401(k) after 1 year - paid caregiver/parental leave ( up to12 weeks) - good health insurance choices - paid medical leave (up to 12 weeks) - 40hrs paid time to volunteer

Cons

CEO/executive leadership has started a recent power trip that is driving out great managers/leads at lower levels and really souring the company environment overall. I used to sing MITRE's praises and have referred several friends to work here, which I regret that now, given the rapid negative change in company morale/culture.

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Great work life balance, friendly and smart coworkers

Cons

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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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