Great company to work for but don't expect great pay, recognition or promotions. - Senior Systems Engineer MITRE Employee Review

4.0
3 Feb 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Exciting, interesting and important work supporting our country. Great benefits including a decent match for the 403B retirement and outstanding health care options. OUTSTANDING vacation package with plenty of opportunities to use it. People doing the work are universally excellent. Very bright and motivated people.

Cons

Promotions are very poor. Recognition for work is meager at best. Feedback and evaluation system is extremely poor, not fitting the type of work we do, nor the environment in which we work.. Management is generally "hands off" preferring, apparently, not wishing to deal with people problems or issues repeatedly recognized as one of the few downsides for the company.

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5.0
28 May 2026
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Pros

Supportive leadership Interesting work Work/life balance

Cons

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3.0
23 Jan 2023
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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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