Lackluster to say the least - Anonymous employee Tetra Tech Employee Review

1.0
Oct 23, 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

-There are some great technical and administrative staff at this company. -The schedule is flexible because senior management tends to come and go as they please. -You can borrow up to 40 hours of time off.

Cons

-This company acquires other companies mainly to inject their bottom line numbers. -The individual groups in the company focuses on too much administrative tasks that true work comes second. -Utilization is so over emphasized that it's tracked daily/weekly; time on overhead is highly scrutinized. -As a PM, expect to focus on paperwork as administrative staff is overworked or nonexistent. -Management changes their mind on processes as much as I change my shirt and sometimes they forget what they put in place. -Information is not transparent, it's kept among managers/senior managers. -Holiday pay is lumped with time-off and is accrued.

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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
Apr 19, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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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