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Lead Systems Engineer Reviews
What is it like working as a Lead Systems Engineer?
June 2022
An exciting place to work and your experience may vary.
Lead Systems Engineer in Detroit:
Pros: There are plenty of challenges and problems to solve and I don't feel like the work is mundane or repetitious.
Cons: There are plenty of challenges and problems to solve, and often feels like there are not enough people to solve them. I'm usually in a state of overwhelm and feeling spread too thin.
February 2022
Working remotely from Hawaii.
Lead Systems Engineer in Wailuku:
Pros: I get to live in paradise and work from home
Cons: It's expensive to live in Hawaii
December 2021
Good place to work, however there are few bad apples.
Lead Systems Engineer in Bangalore:
Pros: Good opportunities to grow, can choose your work based on the amount of challenges you are willing to face
Cons: Too much politics which is unheard of in safety critical organizations. If you have an offer in a team where a guy called 'Ashish Vijay' is part of, AVOID and RUN!
February 2021
Opportunities to work in various fields and projects related to IT systems.
Lead Systems Engineer in Columbia:
Pros: Education and work from home
Cons: pay and structure of company is confusing
October 2020
The work and people were great, until the RIF came along.
Lead Systems Engineer in Chicago:
Pros: I liked seeing the positive changes I could bring about in the company, due to the work that I and my colleagues engaged in. It was hugely gratifying to see how well everything worked after we were finished upgrading, enhancing, or replacing some aspect of technology.
Cons: The time-consuming, needlessly redundant change request software. Quite a bit of productive time was lost engaging in useless "paperwork" and associated CAB meetings, much of which could have been eliminated by spending more time customizing & tweaking the options for the change request software.
June 2020
Center Line.
Lead Systems Engineer in San Diego:
Pros: I like the people at Booz Allen. I appreciate the firm highering younger people.
Cons: I very much dislike the hoteling system. The firm also promises the ability to change job roles. A promise that they do not follow through on.
May 2020
Lead Systems Engineer in Fairfax:
Good benefits overall. Excellent 401 matching although that's been reducing slowly over time. The matching follows a complicated formula separated into two categories, 401A and 403B (it's a not-for-profit FFRDC) so it's hard to say exactly what the match is; something like 8 - 9 %. Good, talented co-workers. Pay is not competitive with similar jobs at other FFRDC nor SETA companies. Pay raises do not keep up with inflation, around 1% annual raises although they will claim higher due to small (1 - 1.5%) bonuses but those bonuses do not count as "base pay", which your raise next year will be based on. They talk a good game about Service in the Public Interest but promotion is based on bringing in more business and working for the company's benefit, not the customer. You can get raves from the customer and MITRE doesn't really care, as long the customer is satisfied it's more about what you can do for the company.
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