Lil fiefdoms - Anonymous employee Tetra Tech Employee Review

2.0
Jul 4, 2010
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

-Some flexibility, based on your manager. -Decent benefits. 401k, med, dental, vision, stock options -decent amount of vacation time that can be accrued

Cons

1. Top heavy management. An "old boy's network" with very little mid level positions. Basically looking for indentured servants to keep projects profitable. 2. Inconsistent performance evaluations. Depending on the project, some individuals are rewarded much more than others based on maintaining profitability, despite equivalent productivity. 3. Small fiefdoms where some managers are complete pr*cks and can make your life hell.

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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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