Great company with great benefits, just hard to move up fast - Senior Communications Engineer MITRE Employee Review

5.0
5 Mar 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Excellent 401k matching, the best work-life balance, ability to work on multiple projects daily. MITRE offers some fantastic benefits - granted, these benefits may have been slightly better in the past, but they are still fantastic

Cons

Hard to move up fast - still stuck in the government notion of time of service. Hard work will get you recognized, but no guarantee for promotion. Management is sometimes disconnected, yet still makes promotional decisions

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5.0
10 Dec 2025
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Pros

Good community, great work-life balance, great company culture, free coffee!

Cons

Company stability not ensured because of federal government

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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