MITRE Modeling and Simulation Engineer reviews

4.0

100% would recommend to a friend

(6 total reviews)
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Mark Peters

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10% positive business outlook

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6 reviews
4.0
Apr 28, 2025
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Pros

- Lots of smart people to work with who have diverse academic/professional backgrounds - Feel like I made direct impact for sponsors - Good work life balance, no expectation of overtime at all

Cons

- Was told that I had to climb into leadership positions (TL, GL, Resource Manager, etc) to be promoted past intermediate level - Depends on the department, but you are sometimes required to search internally for jobs, and the support you get or lack thereof depends on the manager and department - 4 days a week in office required even if the work program doesn't really require in-person work - I am generally concerned about the future of FFRDCs under the current federal administration

4.0
Aug 14, 2023
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Pros

Great lower level leadership (group leads/department managers, mostly smart engineers with people skills, interesting projects with the ability to cater your work to your interests, lots of opportunity for learning with an emphasis on collaboration, unique corporate structure where you can be working with different people on different projects so you aren’t pigeon holed into the same teams, greater flexibility than other defense contractors due to being a not-for-profit, employees are considered “individual contributors” where you are encouraged to really innovate, think about possible solutions, and try it out even if it doesn’t work, average benefits across industry.

Cons

New benefit changes have adversely affected those with long tenure, C suite has made decisions without fair warning to the rest of the company, there is a lack of trust and communication between the decision makers and other employees. You can always find better pay and benefits by switching companies, but I have found the work life balance and flexibility to be very good at MITRE which I would not trade in for higher pay, plus knowing it’s a not-for-profit and I’m doing influential work is worth it to me.

4.0
Jun 10, 2023
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Pros

Stellar benefits, especially the 401(k) matching. They also recently rolled out fertility benefits with Progyny, which would be a big boon especially to workers in their thirties. The number and variety of projects and teams means that you can switch over to what interests you if your current role is not a good fit.

Cons

The pay could be better - anecdotally it seems Lincoln compensates its employees better.

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