ARD in Burlington, Vermont - Anonymous employee Tetra Tech Employee Review

4.0
Nov 4, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Project people are great; focused on improving the lives of others, office politics is rare. Management from the top down is very supportive, despite having to incorporate some of Tetratech's bureaucracy into an otherwise casual, intimate, collaborative culture. ARD employs more PhD's per capita than most universities, so you're surrounded by smart professionals. Lots of after hours activities with colleagues. Burlington is #1 city in USA to live in. Pay is negotiable and good w/good benefits. Travel around the world to different projects. I highly recommend anyone in International Development work to consider the enjoyable environment here, provided you can adapt to Vermont's weather!

Cons

The business office is full of politics and backstabbing. The top people are of limited competence and will mistreat and eventually boot anyone who they perceive as a threat to their positions. I don't recommend anyone applying for a position within this department.

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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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