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      3.0
      16 Mar 2016
      Software engineer
      Recommend
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      Pros

      For a government contractor, MITRE's buildings and work area is very modern and clean that covers a large campus area in expensive Boston area. Many serious looking mature and older folks walking around and attending meetings. There seems to be a lot of resources floating around. Talkative and friendly workers. A diverse of people who's previous career was with federal agencies and willing to spend time chat and tell stories.

      Cons

      I have years of working experience with technology start up companies. The speed of development was exhilarating. At this contractor shop, many of my co-workers are not technical (without engineering degree training) and many managers' resume (their resumes are online) include graduate degrees that are useless for technical work. My old companies have less than 20 percent managers to engineers ratio, here at MITRE it is reversed. That's a lot of overhead money wasted. The speed of technical project is very slow, old, and drags on and on... At least I have technical skills and formal education to start (for now), I really don't think I can be excited in this type of older organizations.

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      Thank you for your review. We are very proud of the talented employees that we have working at MITRE, and it’s great to hear that you enjoyed your co-workers and your work. We work hard to keep the quality of our deliverables high to meet our sponsor’s needs while providing them in a timely manner.

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      5.0
      28 May 2026
      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
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      Pros

      Supportive leadership Interesting work Work/life balance

      Cons

      Searching for projects at times Funding challenges

      3.0
      23 Jan 2023
      Employee
      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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