Dysfunctional Leadership - Systems Engineer MITRE Employee Review

1.0
22 Feb 2024
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Pros

Some wonderful colleagues that are brilliant and dedicated to the work that we do.

Cons

The executive leadership team includes dysfunctional and corrupt leaders that are out of touch with the mission and the workforce. The ELT and Officers enjoy first class flights while simulating authorizating staff layoffs. The CEO holds all employee meetings and speaks nothing about our mission or our future direction. Instead, he and his puppets talk about the great work they are doing with figuring out office space and how they are developing magical plans to improve communication across the enterprise. Sigh. This place has become a joke. The ELT continually promotes themselves with a new title every few months. The CEO even promoted a notorious bully and microagressor to a VP role. The corruption runs deep and the dysfunction even deeper.

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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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