Good experience, but hard to sustain. - Staff Associate Tetra Tech Employee Review

3.0
Oct 24, 2022
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Pros

Smart people, and for the most part really effective systems! The responsibility you will have in the short-term will prepare you well for the rest of your career.

Cons

Staff associates are worked really hard, and there's a widely accepted cynicism that younger people will only stay with the organization for (at best) a couple of years. This contributes to attrition. Opportunities to move up without a PhD are quite limited, and the pay gap between senior and junior staff is pretty extreme (at least 4x).

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5.0
May 19, 2026
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Pros

Big pay $45/hr, great benefits for entry level job, I just graduated college

Cons

Everything is awesome and splendid

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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