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      Leaning towards mean spirited culture - Systems Engineer MITRE Employee Review

      2.0
      9 Jan 2020
      Systems engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      Technical staff and back office staff typically demonstrate excellence, integrity and dedication to the mission of government sponsoring agencies/departments, and respect towards one another.

      Cons

      Behavior of executives, in some cases, towards the working staff is becoming more mean spirited or callous. Perhaps this startling at the top and trickling down. Reasons for decisions made affecting groups of staff and relations with our sponsors are not often communicated clearly, leading to doubting integrity of decision makers.

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      Thank you for your taking the time to write a review. Our integrity and the work we do in the public interest is at the core of who we are at MITRE. The way we behave and treat each other at every level within MITRE, is so important to us, that we recently rolled out a new annual pay and performance of which our cultural behaviors are an integral part. We expect all employees to treat one another with personal dignity and respect, consistent with our values.

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      5.0
      26 Jun 2026
      Lead scientist
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      People are smart and cares about the work

      Cons

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

      3.0
      23 Jan 2023
      Employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      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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