Prepare for Impact - Lead Multi-Discipline Systems Engineer MITRE Employee Review

2.0
9 Nov 2023
Recommend
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Pros

The work is good and generally your peers are both exceptionally talented and friendly.

Cons

MITRE corporate has lost its collective mind. Huge decisions are being made in a vacuum and then dropped on staff like bombs. No preparation, no commiseration, not even a decent explanation as to why they're making the decisions. They reference 'research' they've done and then run away scared because they know we're all too smart to buy it. In the past year they've significantly cut service benefits, substantially increased health benefit costs, and today announced that hybrid employees will now be required to be in the office 50% of their time, a major change from their previously much more flexible and tailorable approach. The morale of staff is awful and people are tired of it. It's not even a rollercoaster anymore, it's a fast-speeding downward spiral and we all better prepare for impact.

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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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