MITRE Reviews

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In an effort to stay most competitive "price-wise" with other contractors, there has been some belt-tightening in the last few years that have begun bringing their overall compensation back toward the pack, but still have a ways to go before they'd be "apples to apples" with them

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Hard to get into the development environment, lots of hoops to jump through.

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Lack of focus on quality: other people have mentioned this, but there is a real problem with quality at MITRE. Projects spin up, execute, and spin down in a period of months, and they are therefore built on extremely rickety foundations. This is dangerous, because the glue and baling wire holding things together aren't always visible from the outside, and engineers who have spent their entire careers at MITRE start to lose the ability to recognize quality issues at all.

Haphazard recognition and advancement : the people who make promotion and salary decisions are not the same people who see the work you do every day. Your advancement is often based off how glamorous or polically significant your work is, and not the actual quality of your work product.

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Difficult to get promoted once you reach a certain level

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Extremely poor job advancement opportunities. No regard for any previous experience other than that within MITRE. Poor utilization of skilled labor.

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No mobility upwards
No funding for training
Do not support Team Work, you are on your own
Poor Project Managers
You have to find your own projects to join
Most projects are short term 3-6 months
Management has overall tunnel vision
Lack of management support

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A few of the SVPs are unpredictable, coming up with new ideas every few months and pushing them down without considering the impact on the company.

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Hard to get recognition if you are a back end developer. Most promotions go to Group/ Project Leads that interface directly with our Stakeholders.

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MITRE is a complicated organization and it is hard for business to grasp what IS its main work. MITRE seems to be an old company with fresh make-up and tries to act young, sometimes it is kind of embarrassing. It is also confusing if MITRE is a solid technology company or just a management company. Average salary for past years aside, I see a lot of people with fancy titles but do not seem to do much work. I don’t even know these people can work in real-world consulting companies. I read in advertisement a long time ago the company was a deep technical expertise in many subject areas helping Federal agencies, but that was before I was born. My talk with friends working in other consulting companies made me think MTIRE is running on a lot of marketing without deep technical knowledge. Someone also told me that new employees are being paid low because of a lot of corporate management overheads. While I heard stories that large monetary bonus has been awarded to higher up, but I don’t think any technical or younger employees will receive and significant bonus. I don’t feel close to my colleagues because supervisors are either inexperienced or very secretive works available. It can be a difficult work environment if you are not a favorite of your managers. Many older employees are friendly but are not willing to provide much information to help us younger employees. There just seem to be some mis-match between what we are advertising and what we do, at lease from my part of the company.

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Pay. Slow pace of work at times.