Hostile leadership, poor career opportunities, terrible culture - Anonymous employee MITRE Employee Review

1.0
4 Mar 2024
Anonymous employee
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Pros

40 hour work week. 401K matching. Good parental leave. Decent place to sundown your career.

Cons

Leadership is absolutely toxic, disdainful of the workers, and regularly gaslight. The recent 50% RTO mandate has been a disaster. The roll out was a case study in poor leadership and communication. No legitimate justifications have been given beyond references to data (that is never shared), and implications that workers can't be trusted to work from home. Top-heavy company flooded with VPs, SMEs, and senior staff who are just warming seats waiting for retirement while the small percent of junior staff do the brunt of the work for below-market pay. Quality of work is poor. Project leadership and management is often lacking. Few opportunities for professional growth or advancement. A bad place for junior staff

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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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