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      MITRE Principal Systems Engineer/Program Manager reviews

      2.7

      25% would recommend to a friend

      (149 total reviews)
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      Mark Peters

      75% approve of CEO

      9% positive business outlook

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      Principal Systems Engineer/Program Manager employees have rated MITRE with 2.7 out of 5 stars, based on 149 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Principal Systems Engineer/Program Manager professionals have an average working experience there. MITRE is rated 26% below average by Principal Systems Engineer/Program Manager professionals compared to other employers within the Government and public administration industry (3.6 stars).

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      149 reviews
      1.0
      24 May 2026

      Ultimate betrayal

      Principal engineer
      Recommend
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      Pros

      Had some interesting opportunities to join and start projects.

      Cons

      Tossed on the street despite being better than just about everyone I encountered in my time at MITRE.

      3.0
      5 May 2026

      Great staff, but instability from reorgs and cuts

      Principal scientist
      Recommend
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      Pros

      Great staff to work with: wide variety of backgrounds and skills and interests. Some work can be really interesting

      Cons

      Reorgs and DOGE-related cuts made everything very unstable. Lost most of their senior people. Now replacing with less experienced.

      1.0
      8 Apr 2026

      Going through existential crisis

      Principal engineer
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      Pros

      - getting fewer but you can sometimes find work that is interesting and challenging - work life balance

      Cons

      - government sponsors are citing our high costs as an issue which has led to removal of experienced engineers off projects in favour of junior staff - inability of senior and executive leadership ranks to see that they are protecting their (expensive) peers on indirect budgets which add to our costs. - because of above two points, the experienced technical workforce is getting sidelined for a multitude of chiefs (of sll sorts), managing directors and directors. Somehow they have abundant funding while the technical workforce scrambles for work and budget. Irony is that expensive chiefs are telling technical staff to staff junior employees. Anyone have a mirror for them?

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