Disappointment: Incompetent CEO and ELT...where is the Board? - Senior Manager MITRE Employee Review

2.0
20 Jan 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Work/Life balance is good if you make it a priority. Good flexibility. Middle management really cares about the people. Good education and parental leave benefits.

Cons

I have been at MITRE for 10 years and historically have been extremely proud to work here. Not anymore. There has been a series of unfortunate events - nonsensical ELT decisions, arbitrary return to the office policies, inability to embrace remote work, enterprise systems and decisions not under IT, mandated PTO, benefits cuts (PTO, Holidays, and Civic Time), layoffs which were communicated via automated Workday notification, perpetually condescending leadership tone, all while continuing to spend on Indirect and hire additional VPs. Morale is at an all-time low and it can be attributed 100% to the ELT, but it all stems from the CEO. Such incompetence and significant egos at the highest levels of the organization. I can only hope that MITRE survives them.

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MITRE Response
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Thank you for your candid feedback. At MITRE, we are always grateful and appreciative of the insights and comments we receive from our staff, and it is always our priority to hear from our employees and take action where appropriate. We are proud of the work-life balance options we provide including flex work weeks, a hybrid office experience, and our full-line of employee leave options including parental leave, caregiver leave, military leave, civic leave, and others. Our several paid holidays a year also include one paid flex holiday that can be used by staff on any day of their choosing. This allows our talented people to choose a day of paid time off based on their own preferences. As a learning organization we are also proud of our robust educational assistance program that ensures our staff can pursue higher education in ways that best suit their needs and goals. We recognize that the recent modifications to our benefits are challenging and impact our people in a variety of ways. The CEO and executive leadership team share in these challenges and recognize that each of us have individual preferences as to which benefit is most important to us at any given point in our life and career. As an organization committed to operate in the public interest, leadership has the responsibility to evaluate the needs of all of our employees collectively while balancing our obligation to remain affordable and position the company to remain a cost-effective solution provider for the government going into the future. These decisions are part of our company’s long-term strategy to meet our mission, preserve our employee's benefits were possible, while appropriately managing the government and public dollars we are entrusted with. Decisions of this nature are never easy, and leadership analyzed and assessed all internal and external factors, including the current uncertainty of the economic environment. We value each of our talented employees tremendously and stand committed to preparing them and our company for the future ahead.

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