MITRE Senior Developer 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?
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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The constant churn and uncertainty in this organization has become crippling.
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What is the best part about your compensation package?
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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MITRE does a good job of justifying and building compensation packages.
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MITRE generously matches employee for retirement plan contributions and a superior Health, Dental and other benefits package, including generous personal time accrued every pay period, as well as a flexible work week that allows for personal time off and make up time over a 2-week reporting period.
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Why do you feel undervalued and what would make you feel better about your compensation?
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?
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?
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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Open to share new ideas, no stove pipes
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What needs to change to make the company culture better?
They need to figure out what their business is.
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more Senior Leadership interaction with sponsors
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We need a clear vision and direction and the churning and restructuring need to stop.
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What did you like most about the interview process?
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?
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What makes you most happy at work?
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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Overcoming various technical issues and eventually succeeding in balancing, performance, budget, and need dates to get systems delivered to fielding to help military and government objectives.
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The people that I work with and the impact that we have on how our government works
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What's going wrong and how can it be improved?
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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