Good for IT, Cyber, and Software, Not Much Else - Systems Engineer, Intermediate MITRE Employee Review

2.0
Mar 24, 2024
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Pros

Decent pay, decent benefits, lots of opportunities people interested in Cybersecurity, IT, and Software. .

Cons

The work policy is not flexible, project work can be volatile and hard to secure internally, the demographic skews older so new employees/college grads may struggle finding peers. MITRE’s National Security sector has a strange relationship with the government where they try to predict what it wants in advance without actually knowing (mainly due to bad communication), causing engineers, IT, cybersecurity, and software people to start and scrap efforts/concepts in a hindering way instead of streamlining the workflow (even when accounting for necessary security procedures and strong usage of agile project management).

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5.0
Mar 17, 2026
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Pros

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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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