Co-Op: Data Collection Technician. - Anonymous employee Tetra Tech Employee Review

4.0
Oct 3, 2017
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Amazing company. I worked in the highway infrastructure division as a data collection technologist. The work is long and exhausting, you basically operate a collection vehicle that looks like a batmobile with all the digital recording technology during the summertime. You have to survey all the roads, so its 3 months of non-stop 7 days a week work (12 hours per day). It's really lax after that in the office for the rest of your time, you will get to work with Matlab and help process data. The 3 months of summer are long but you get to see the entire province which is really cool. The project Director, Ewing Kung is awesome. Miss that guy. Everyone else was great too. This will look amazing on a CV, and if you are great they will try to keep you. Great pay.

Cons

Long hours during the summer, maybe night shift. Sitting in a vehicle all day, ya it takes some getting used to. Sometimes stressful, especially if you are good enough to become in charge of the vehicle.

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Cons

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Pros

Hired as a "fire-hire," the position is disaster based and 100% travel so you get to travel domestically paid for by the company. When working, pay is good, you can make a lot very quickly with overtime. Being part-time, I can take time-off whenever I want for as long as I want.

Cons

For my position, no natural disasters = no work. Living out of a hotel for months SUCKs and burn-out is real as you could be working 7 days a week, 12 hours a day for months on end. There's no added compensation for taking on an on-site lead position even though the workload triples. As a part-time employee, you have to pay more for benefits when working versus not working. There's a huge disconnect between part-time employees in the field and the full-time employees that do office work and upper management. Part-time workers are not prioritized unless they're willing to do whatever is thrown at them without complaints. The employee turn-over rate in the field is crazy.

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