MITRE Engineering Department Employee Reviews
Briefly describe your overall experience at your company
What do you like best about the leadership team?
Fairly transparent (at least they appear to be). They make a good effort to keep everyone informed and seem like they actually pay attention to feedback.
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Honest, transparent, and they truly put the employees first.
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Very frequent communication opportunities from various levels of senior management.
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They care about the staff, especially in work/life balance
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What does the leadership team need to get better at?
Making decisions that could plausibly lead to this company doing anything it claims to do.
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Executive team is too new to MITRE and has no clue about what motivates the majority of employees and satisfies customers. Employees are extremely mistrustful of the executive team.
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Accountability, making decisions, telling the truth.
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lack of leadership is the best description. They believe they can replace managerical competence with IT competence. Meaning the one who knows the most should be the manager. Sort of Roman Gladiator type, but they don't allow for bumping.
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be more aware of the diverse needs of our vast sponsor base
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What is the best part about your compensation package?
Education reimbursement and tuition assistance
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Among the standard health and financial benefits, MITRE also provides both tuition reimbursement (they'll pay for your advanced degree!) and student loan repayment assistance!
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Benefits. Flex time, PTO, Retirement, Legal Plans, Pet Insurance. Healthcare is good but used to be better.
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Flex-time, PTO, and retirement matching are all great.
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retirement benefits and the overall compensation package
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Why do you feel undervalued and what would make you feel better about your compensation?
Bigger raises, larger salaries for employees with more years in the job.
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MITRE salaries are 20-25% less than other contractors. There are 0 stock options/bonuses and a "good" raise is 2.5%. A select project receives 20% higher salaries because the (US) location is "challenging." Staff doing the same work in similar or worse locations get no such equity.
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I don't work here for pay. I took a pay and benefit cut to come here so I don't have to travel and can take off when I want. I took a 10% pay cut to come here.
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What are some of the best things about your team?
Collaboration is awesome. People are generally kind and straightforward. Lot's of intelligent people.
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Many A+ players. A lot of smart people to learn from and generally everyone has a friendly mentor-like mentality.
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collaborative, sharing, caring, knowledgeable, mission focused
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Can do attitude and ability to provide quality products in relatively short time over many technical disciplines.
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Top notch and willing to share ideas
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What do your coworkers need to improve and how could you work together better?
Many are retired in place and have become complacent. They tell clients what they want to hear, sit at a desk for 8 hours, and claim that their role is to provide "oral deliverables." (I am not joking.)
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Show up on time, end on time, focus on the meeting rather than on the distractions, come prepared.
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Outstanding team members at the execution level.
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What is most positive about the culture and environment at your company?
Coffee shops are available and used
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In my experience people at MITRE have generally been wonderfully inclusive and collaborative. A few pockets of bro culture and intelligent yet condescending individuals but most people are great.
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Everyone is focused on solving hard problems to help our sponsors and change the world. The mission is bigger than any one person and gives a sense of purpose and drive to the work.
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actually adhere to a work life balance
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Working some of the most challenging technical issues for Government and military applications; all in the public interest and as a trusted member of government organizations.
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What needs to change to make the company culture better?
They could try taking any positive action towards organizing their workforce. It seems like all they know how to do is issue top-down decrees to control employee behavior.
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Provide more recognition for employees who have worked at the company longer.
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Clean house -- especially across the NSEC -- overhaul everything from the VPs down and STOP hiring execs because they "look the part." There are dozens of empty suites in the 6/7 and above levels that haven't produced anything but paperwork for decades.
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They need to figure out what their business is.
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more Senior Leadership interaction with sponsors
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What did you like most about the interview process?
Interview day itself was a positive experience.
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Numerous interviewers for objectivity. Transparency of process.
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Got to meet a variety of people
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Everyone was personable, intelligent, and kind.
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I got to speak to several engineers that I would be working with and saw the work environment.
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What would you improve about your company's interview process?
Skills-based interviews. Stop calling everyone a systems engineer (or stop hiring people for systems engineering roles who don't have those skills).
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What makes you most happy at work?
Being able to work on interesting projects and to an extent, to choose or at least propose those projects.
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Right now, just having a job because I don't trust management.
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The abundance of opportunities to learn a variety of new and exciting things. I've never gotten bored for a long period of time.
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We work together on hard problems that actually make an impact.
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Interesting and challenging technical problems and feeling like we're making a difference.
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What's going wrong and how can it be improved?
See previous question. Accountability and willingness to take action are imperative. Stop being driven by the "good ol boy" relationships. MITRE is stuck in 1982 and it shows.
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It's been wrong since 1958. We get hired by the government because the government contracting rules are so difficult to deal with, if you have an FFRDC, then just issue a task order and you can skip it. Lower quality but bodies none the less.
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What do you like best about your company?
The focus on integrity and truth.
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What would you most like to see improved at your company?
Focus on unbiased integrity and honesty with our government sponsors seems to be slowly eroding with the shift toward exploring more for-profit activities. We have a stellar reputation for being trusted advisors. Don't lose it.
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