Return to Office Policy will be the downfall - Security Engineer MITRE Employee Review

1.0
9 May 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Pay is fair for government work (Way under commercial sector) Flexible work hours Retirement matching

Cons

*Leadership is completely disconnect from reality of work force. *Continuing to hire even though they can't keep enough work for current staff *Return to Office Policy - Forces EVERYONE back in purely numbers. Employees with remote projects which are not at the local sites are still forced to come in. Just to find an empty office and work remotely. *Pulling daily badge swipes and keeping a log/evidence of those not complying. Honestly could fire people over it tomorrow with no warning and no consideration of performance. *Employee attrition rate for senior and lead engineers is staggering, Many are leaving for equal pay just to get out.

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5.0
5 Jun 2026
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Pros

Good work life balance, not too competitive

Cons

Slightly lower comp compared to other for profit companies in the area

3.0
23 Jan 2023
Recommend
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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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