Needs better Leadership - Financial Analyst MITRE Employee Review

2.0
23 Jan 2023
Recommend
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Pros

When I first started to work at MITRE (pre-pandemic) there was this emphasis from everyone about work life balance. I was excited about the tuition reimbursement policy and the benefits package was for the most part pretty great (aside from the fact you have to wait 1 year for the company to invest into your 401k).

Cons

Shortly after starting the pandemic hit. During this time finance underwent a transformation of systems which was an absolute nightmare and poorly executed. This resulted in 10 hour days for over 10 months. Senior leadership does not remotely care about you as an employee or about how many hours you have to work to meet the customers needs. Capacity issues rose as HR services failed to fill positions. I am so happy that I left when I did, I have not heard many positive things from anyone in finance since my departure. The finance leadership for the most part was a wonderful group of individuals who were willing to help you grow and achieve new heights until even their plates were too heavy to succeed in their leadership roles.

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3.0
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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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