Environment Practice is a Joke - Anonymous employee Tetra Tech Employee Review

1.0
Aug 22, 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Good benefits and overtime - Experience on different types of projects

Cons

- Under appreciate staff - Poor communication - Project managers hoard work and don't manage projects well - Managers have favorite and do a poor job of manager staffing resources for projects - Senior staff will openly throw staff under the bus - Environmental senior staff are questionable with their technical capabilities. - Rates are very high for the sub par quality of work provided to clients and reports are almost always late. - Management care more about project margins and profitability than anything else. Pressure from corporate in the US about money. Staff are just numbers - Managers don't address issues and rather let it slide and not deal with it. - Little to no acknowledgement and no incentive for staff doing good, hard work. No action taken for staff that are continuously late on projects or who do a poor job. - Senior staff will take all the credit for junior staffs' work when the senior had no input to project. - No opportunity to move up in the company.

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Cons

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3.0
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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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