It is mostly OK but not much job security now - Anonymous employee Tetra Tech Employee Review

2.0
Jul 23, 2011
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Tetra Tech is an average company to work for. When there are projects to work on, it is an OK place to work and everyone is happy. However, at times, you struggle to stay billable, especially now that government is cutting funds on projects. Job security has not been great for the past 2-3 years. People are laid-back and there are a lot of people with diverse knowledge within the company. Hours are flexible and there is no dress code.

Cons

High overhead costs. Tetra Tech has hundreds, if not not thousand of offices, with 5-6 people working in it. It has also too many senior management and project managers who don't do anything. Quality of work is average, because most of the money is burned in the beginning of the project without actually producing anything valuable. Senior management has no vision on how to grow the company with its current resources. Tetra Tech buys a lot of smaller companies to grow and cook its financial books. If you don't have a project to work on, most likely they will not fire you, but they will tell you to take time off. Hence, you might still be a full-time employee, but not get paid. Needless to say, you are useful as long as you help them make money.

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Pros

Good culture, reasonable expectations for position duties

Cons

Difficult to receive any out of cycle raises/promotions

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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