Quantity of work over quality. - Anonymous employee Tetra Tech Employee Review

1.0
Aug 9, 2013
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

None that I can think of.

Cons

Mid level management is a mess, project engineers take any work that they can get to keep the numbers looking good. Engineers are typically young and inexperienced with project management which means that there is always a panic when a project is due and they find that there is not enough resources to produce a quality product by deadline. Overtime is expected due to poor project management and finger pointing is rampant between offices. Layoffs are common when numbers are low. Layoffs typically start at the bottom. Brown nosing really does pay off at Tetra Tech such as sitting next to the big guys during staff meetings, asking a lot of useless questions and laughing at stupid jokes by management. Very 80's style management.

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Pros

Good culture, reasonable expectations for position duties

Cons

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3.0
Apr 19, 2026
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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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