Mass layoffs, job insecurity, unfair titles and merit structures. - Data Scientist MITRE Employee Review

1.0
Apr 23, 2026
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Pros

Proximity to interesting government sponsors and problem spaces Good 401k match Good health insurance

Cons

Company fired so many people during covid for not getting vaccinated, which was stressful and scary. A lot of resistance to working remotely during times when working remotely made the most sense. Fast forward, and they've fired so much fo the company due to gov cuts, but not in a way that makes much sense. Firings done by pulling spreadsheets of who is billing whta hours where without consideration for tenure, skills, etc. many people fired had nothing but great performance reviews. People in positions often do not have the skills for their job titles. For example, someone might be a data scientist or engineer with no trainign in those areas. Perhaps because org is matrixed and management does not often even share speciailized skills with dept. members. Scary stuff.

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3.0
Jan 23, 2023
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Pros

Great diversity, quality of life and staff. Been with MITRE over 20 years.

Cons

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!!!

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