Great mission, poor financial management of overhead - Group Lead MITRE Employee Review

4.0
Jan 24, 2023
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Pros

The mission of the company is lofty and it is great to work for a non-profit that can really make a difference.

Cons

The management of the operational budget has been in decline since the current CFO has been in charge. There is no unified budget strategy across the operational units which leads to certain areas over spending with the abandon of a for-profit enterprise while others suffer to stay within a tight budget.

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5.0
Jun 26, 2026
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Pros

People are smart and cares about the work

Cons

Changes in government contract and dependence on contract makes finding work unstable

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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