Work-life balance as others note is a big one. I also really like working with a good mix of well-meaning staff. Very few of the back-stabbing, ladder-climbing folks that you find in other workplaces, but I've heard they exist. Luckily I've not had to deal with them.
This is a place where junior staff, if they are lucky enough to be selected, can get valuable insights on how government contracting works so that they can leave to gain higher salary elsewhere. And if they plan it right, perhaps they return to MITRE where their experience is rewarded.
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Nothing that you don't experience working elsewhere if the work primarily involves support of the US government, security, sudden project cancellations, not enough funding to pay for the work needed to do it right, etc.
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Thank you for such a positive review. We are glad that you enjoy your co-workers and the work-life balance at MITRE.
Great diversity, quality of life and staff. Been with MITRE over 20 years.
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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!!!