MITRE Reviews

Current Employee – been working at MITRE

Pros – Lots of different work, if you get bored, move on to a different task. Lots of travel if you want it. Great benefits. Free to work un-supervised.

Cons – Promotions are not clearly defined. Poor management. Poor review process. Poor guidance.

Advice to Senior Management – Good engineers are not always good managers.

Current Employee – been working at MITRE

Pros – Excellent work/life balance! Rank and file are probably the best, scientifically and technically, to be found in any organization and are eager to share knowledge. Mitre does provide some venues for knowledge management and knowledge sharing.

Cons – Management of CCG is probaly the worst of any company anywhere including government. There is absolutely no path or chance for advancement. The yearly review process is a total sham and virtually worthless where employees are not allowed to participate. You are judged by a group of managers that you never react with during the year, who have no (little) knowledge of what you have accomplished. If you do not have BIG BLUE (IBM) on your resume your career at CCG will stop with no further chance of advancement. MITRE, particularly CCG, is turning in to a job shop of senior talent, without the compenastion of a job shop, with no reward(s) for good work!

Advice to Senior Management – Wake up and smell the coffee! When the recession and job market improve open the flood gates as many will flee in droves!

Current Employee – been working at MITRE

Pros – Work Life balance is stressed

Cons – Quasi gov't work and benefits

Advice to Senior Management – Moderate growth

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at MITRE

Pros – - Important, satisfying work in the public interest
- Abundance of technical challenges and interesting, leading-edge technology projects
- Freedom to learn and grow in a variety of technical disciplines
- Freedom and mobility to change careers while staying in the same company
- Great compensation, benefits, training and educational assistance
- Job offerings at numerous domestic and international sites provide cultural opportunities if you are willing to move
- Excellent work/life balance
- Phased retirement that allows company to retain highly experienced staff well beyond retirement age
- Intelligent, motivated and committed people

Cons – - Congressional ceiling limits company growth and ability to support our nation. While this keeps us focused on the most important work most of the time, the artificial limit is often cause for internal turmoil between competing business units due to the zero sum game.

Advice to Senior Management – Stay the course, manage our costs and increase our value proposition. Continue to focus on the most strategic work while creating opportunities for for-profit organizations.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at MITRE

Pros – There is a strong focus on working in the public interest, even if that means less MITRE staff on the job, the truth is the truth. The leadership tries hard to keep the employees from just falling in line with the government sponsors because it is easy, they work hard to keep us focused on what the government SHOULD be doing.

Cons – Because of the public interest and the support of the government, MITRE does not control it's own destiny the way a private company does. We don't sell things to the government, we try to make the government better and more efficient - sometimes our best work needs to be done where the government is most dysfunctional - that can be hard for employees to do, especially new employees.

Advice to Senior Management – Stay focused on controlling costs, we are making progress, let's not get comfortable.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at MITRE

Pros – The best MITRE attribute is its work/life balance. My child was sick in December for several days. Not once did I feel pressure to connect my computer or call in. And my supervisor would call just to check on me and my child.

Cons – The downside of working at MITRE is the promotion process. It is definitely not a level playing field within the different centers nor between technical and support staff. I do see that improving.

Advice to Senior Management – Please continue to keep the employees at all levels in the loop on the corporate strategy and reminders of the reason we are an FFRDC.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at MITRE

Pros – Doing great things for our sponsors and being allowed to think out of the box. This is a place where you can be challenged.

Cons – Many sponsors need to better understand what MITRE has to offer. Find very difficult tasks that require a multi-disciplinary approach. Allow MITRE to step away from tasks that are not in this venue and give them to a for-profit company.

Advice to Senior Management – Make some hard decisions. Many times MITRE VP and CEO talk about things that they don't necessarily follow up with and make some hard decisions.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at MITRE

Pros – MITRE has a great mission - support the customer. The people who work there are some of the best in the industry and very professional. MITRE has a worldwide presence with opportunities to work a variety of different projects with varies customers. Work/life balance is a key attribute.

Cons – Advancement can be a long and difficult process. The "path" to moving up in the company is not always clear and varies throughout the company. Many customers do not recognize the value MITRE provides and other contractors do not understand the MITRE role.

Advice to Senior Management – Listen to your people. Identify clear pathways for growth, development and promotion that carry across the corporation and remain consistent. MITRE's most valuable resource is its people - take care of them and they will take care of you.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at MITRE

Pros – Strong technical environment and infrastructure

Cons – Staff and management are hypercritical at times

Advice to Senior Management – Be clear about why youare making specific decisions.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at MITRE

Pros – The incredible diversity in people and experience at MITRE allows personal and professional growth on a daily basis, while the ability to support different projects means employees can move to another project if they feel stale, and don't need to leave MITRE. Longevity of employees is also overwhelming. It is more unheard of to be at MITRE for 1 year than it is for 10 years.

Cons – Promotions and advancement are slow to come by, and some who have already attained higher levels do not work at those levels and are not held accountable.

Advice to Senior Management – Differentiating MITRE as an FFRDC and pushing back on those who see us as a contractor are big time needs. For people to be getting CACs or .mil emails as contractors is a failure on the part of upper management.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend