Working in a Graveyard - Anonymous employee MITRE Employee Review

Where do I start? MITRE has a lot of problems, especially if you are a young person. MITRE is a walled/ closed door office environment. All meetings are always held on Skype even if everyone is in the building, and working on the same floor. Most of the people at MITRE are academics so they are not the most exciting people to converse with unless you are also an academic. The company has an unusual system of group leaders, task leaders, and project leaders which can create unnecessary layers of bureaucracy. There is no way of knowing which projects are available, and this can put pressure on employees to stay on projects they do not like so that they can remain covered. Promotions are very inconsistent at MITRE. Some people get promoted after 1 year, others 3 years, some 6 years, and there are people who stay in the same position for 10 years or more. How does that happen? I have no idea because no one will tell you how promotions are handled. The response is "management decides who deserves a promotion". MITRE is anti-entrepreneurial, and young workers are seen as immature, unreasonable, or just flat out dumb. Instead of shifting towards new areas of technology that can help the company in the future, older workers are complaining about how MITRE is changing, and frankly, they are keeping the company stuck in the past. I will stay at MITRE for a maximum of 3 years until I can pay off my student loans. If I can pay my loans off faster, I will resign sooner. I would only recommend working here if you are a lazy person who enjoys putting your life on easy mode. If you are young, ambitious, want aggressive promotions, and are willing to try new things, DO NOT come to MITRE.