Would you want to work for MITRE?

[Qacer]

I have a chance to interview with MITRE soon. Not too sure about the position, yet, but I've been reading about it, and it seems like a cool company.

Anyone work / worked at MITRE?

It's also in the list of Top 100 Best Companies to Work.

 

[JJChicken]

Good luck

 

[LS8]

Is this a defense contractor?

 

[Qacer]

Originally posted by: LS8
Is this a defense contractor?

The MITRE Corporation is a not-for-profit organization chartered to work in the public interest. As a national resource, we apply our expertise in systems engineering, information technology, operational concepts, and enterprise modernization to address our sponsors' critical needs.

MITRE manages three Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs): one for the Department of Defense (known as the DoD Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence FFRDC), one for the Federal Aviation Administration (the Center for Advanced Aviation System Development), and one for the Internal Revenue Service and U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (the Center for Enterprise Modernization). MITRE also has its own independent research and development program that explores new technologies and new uses of technologies to solve our sponsors' problems in the near-term and in the future. Additionally, MITRE's Homeland Security Center coordinates the application of our capabilities in systems engineering and integration to support the full range of homeland security initiatives.

 

[Qacer]

Originally posted by: Barack Obama
Good luck

Yeah, thanks! I'm sure my chances are not as high as those with clearances.

 

[Rumpltzer]

Careful.

Boeing announced 10K layoffs last week. About half of those are commercial, but I'm sure their defense workers won't escape the cuts.

Northrop is consolidating and I'm sure that the official layoff numbers will be announced in the next month or two.

Although we're currently at war and the defense industry has been strongly profitable for years, try to recall what happened when Clinton came into office and started shutting down all those military bases. The defense contractors suffered hard during that time, and I think that there will be pre-emptive layoffs this time around.

Good luck! 😀

 

[Gibson486]

Man..I wanted to work that company so badly when I graduated. They never wanted to bring me in. If you can get in...do it.

 

[Codewiz]

Originally posted by: Rumpltzer
Careful.

Boeing announced 10K layoffs last week. About half of those are commercial, but I'm sure their defense workers won't escape the cuts.

Northrop is consolidating and I'm sure that the official layoff numbers will be announced in the next month or two.

Although we're currently at war and the defense industry has been strongly profitable for years, try to recall what happened when Clinton came into office and started shutting down all those military bases. The defense contractors suffered hard during that time, and I think that there will be pre-emptive layoffs this time around.

Good luck! 😀

Also keep in mind the economy was much better off for Clinton so he could afford to make those cuts.

If anything Obama will expand federal spending and the DoD won't suffer at all.

 

[marincounty]

Originally posted by: Rumpltzer
Careful.

Boeing announced 10K layoffs last week. About half of those are commercial, but I'm sure their defense workers won't escape the cuts.

Northrop is consolidating and I'm sure that the official layoff numbers will be announced in the next month or two.

Although we're currently at war and the defense industry has been strongly profitable for years, try to recall what happened when Clinton came into office and started shutting down all those military bases. The defense contractors suffered hard during that time, and I think that there will be pre-emptive layoffs this time around.

Good luck! 😀

What actually happened was Clinton continued the process of the base-closing commission
of GHWB, all Clinton could do was accept the list of bases to be closed, or reject it and start over.

Of course the Republicans stacked the deck and closed mostly bases in Democratic leaning areas, for instance they closed almost every base in the SF bay area, creating a recession that lasted many years.

We had a bloated defense budget after Reagan and the end of the cold war, things needed to be cut.

 

[sjwaste]

Originally posted by: Qacer
I have a chance to interview with MITRE soon. Not too sure about the position, yet, but I've been reading about it, and it seems like a cool company.

Anyone work / worked at MITRE?

It's also in the list of Top 100 Best Companies to Work.

I've been told its a very laid back place to work, but that most folks there are later in their careers. At least in the Northern VA locations, they have a very favorable image among the consultant community.

 

[acheron]

Originally posted by: sjwaste

Originally posted by: Qacer
I have a chance to interview with MITRE soon. Not too sure about the position, yet, but I've been reading about it, and it seems like a cool company.

Anyone work / worked at MITRE?

It's also in the list of Top 100 Best Companies to Work.

I've been told its a very laid back place to work, but that most folks there are later in their careers. At least in the Northern VA locations, they have a very favorable image among the consultant community.

Maybe your NoVA consultant community. Though I suppose part of my impression is based on them grabbing some contracts from my old company, so I'm not really neutral. 😛

Seriously, for a fairly large corp like that it'll mostly depend on the position and part of the company you work for more than who the parent company is.

 

[sjwaste]

Originally posted by: acheron

Originally posted by: sjwaste

Originally posted by: Qacer
I have a chance to interview with MITRE soon. Not too sure about the position, yet, but I've been reading about it, and it seems like a cool company.

Anyone work / worked at MITRE?

It's also in the list of Top 100 Best Companies to Work.

I've been told its a very laid back place to work, but that most folks there are later in their careers. At least in the Northern VA locations, they have a very favorable image among the consultant community.

Maybe your NoVA consultant community. Though I suppose part of my impression is based on them grabbing some contracts from my old company, so I'm not really neutral. 😛

Seriously, for a fairly large corp like that it'll mostly depend on the position and part of the company you work for more than who the parent company is.

What'd they take from you?

 

[Qacer]

Originally posted by: Codewiz

Originally posted by: Rumpltzer
Careful.

Boeing announced 10K layoffs last week. About half of those are commercial, but I'm sure their defense workers won't escape the cuts.

Northrop is consolidating and I'm sure that the official layoff numbers will be announced in the next month or two.

Although we're currently at war and the defense industry has been strongly profitable for years, try to recall what happened when Clinton came into office and started shutting down all those military bases. The defense contractors suffered hard during that time, and I think that there will be pre-emptive layoffs this time around.

Good luck! 😀

Also keep in mind the economy was much better off for Clinton so he could afford to make those cuts.

If anything Obama will expand federal spending and the DoD won't suffer at all.

It seems that according to this article, Obama won't be doing in defense spending cuts in the next 18 months: Reuters link

 

[Deviant Grasshopper]

Yeah when the economy is the way it is the last thing we need are a bunch of government employees getting layed off and competing with civilians.