Great mission suffering under poor leadership - werkgeversreview Department Head bij MITRE

2,0
24 aug 2020
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Mission alignment with sponsor organizations enhances “doing the right thing”. Reasonable pace of work and work/life balance. Strong education programs. Opportunities to work in different areas abound. Leadership response to COVID has been a highlight in an otherwise ineffective leadership culture.

Minpunten

CEO and Sr Leadership disconnected from middle management and rank and file. Leadership has created a culture of “do as I say or suffer consequences”. Intellectually honest debate no longer tolerated and those who don’t parrot the leadership line are ignored, discarded, or targeted for separation/demotion. Leadership musical chairs often results in long successful engineers and managers having to recompete (often unsuccessfully) for their old jobs because they are not part of the “in crowd”. Morale issues continue to grow.

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5,0
6 apr 2026
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Pluspunten

Strong mission impact, Great work-life balance

Minpunten

Slower career & tech pace

3,0
23 jan 2023
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Pluspunten

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

Minpunten

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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