Great Onboarding! - Anonymous employee MITRE Employee Review

5.0
18 Apr 2022
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great new employee onboarding program. Very welcoming to new employees. Lots of opportunity to work on meaningful projects. The not-for-profit aspects are very refreshing compared to the for-profit government contracting world. While MITRE still needs to ensure we secure ongoing sponsor funding, the "bid low to win" mentality isn't ingrained into the fabric of the company. Employees for the most part actually care about doing good work and are mission-focussed.

Cons

There are pockets of folks (especially longer-term employees) who are somewhat resistant to change, but they can typically be persuaded when presented with good data and value proposition. That being said, many folks want a lot of data to make decisions or pick apart data and/or overanalyze it.

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Pros

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Cons

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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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