Vantaggi
+ Ability to do impactful work for the Sponsor, while being a trusted advisor and not having to "drum up" business due to the not-for-profit nature and operating as an FFRDC. + Flexibility to drive your own career in terms of what types of skills you want to hone, while also being engaged in many that you don't know you need (at the time) due to the small-team nature of most work. + Great caring individuals at the worker level whom you can develop friendships with. + Good benefits for parental leave. + Middle/senior management up to Director level is engaged and care about their people, but are often limited in actions by Corporate micromanaging.
Svantaggi
- Lack of transparency at executive level - Depleting benefits in terms of Paid-Time-Off - Cutting Holidays - Capped pay-raises that don't outpace or begin to approach inflation - Lack of focus on Revenue generating staff - Deprioritization on retaining subject matter experts (technological, and Sponsor-based) that have long made MITRE the place to be and for Sponsors to go to - No benefit to longer tenured employees make job-hopping much more approachable than it used to be, depleting camaraderie