Good benefits, flexibility, impactful work, smart people - Systems Engineer MITRE Employee Review

4.0
Aug 4, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Good benefits, flexibility, impactful work, smart people

Cons

A bit dysfunctional and difficult to navigate. Need to find your own way onto meaningful and impactful projects that are interesting to you.

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MITRE Response
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We really appreciate your feedback and your more than 4 years of commitment and dedication to MITRE's mission. We are deeply committed to consistently providing competitive benefits that include our top of the line medical, dental, vision, and retirement in addition to many paid leave programs such as parental, caregiver, military, bereavement, and civic time. We also offer a flexible work model that allows for a blended approach of in-office and at-home work options plus our flex-time program where staff can flex their work hours over any given pay period. In providing our benefits, our goal is to create a truly uplifting environment for a talented staff. We focus on supporting them so they can focus on the impactful work that they do – like building MITRE’s HIPE™ Demonstration Lab to battle mis and dis-information, or helping the government assess national-level supply chain vulnerabilities to minimize the impact of potential disruptions, or AI Red Teaming to advance whole-of-nation AI assurance against global adversaries, safeguard the public, protect critical infrastructure, and ensure the continuity of mission deliveries by the United States government. Learn more about our critical work at: https://www.mitre.org/news-insights

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