Don't work here - Anonymous employee Tetra Tech Employee Review

1.0
Dec 26, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

None that I can think of.

Cons

Terrible leave policy, and at many subsidiaries you will have the "option" of applying leave to your timesheet to reach 40 hours, which is almost every week. (As a result you will rarely be able to take an actual day off because most of your leave will go toward simply getting a paycheck.) No opportunity for professional growth or advancement, and Tetra Tech is really just a big holding company, so if your division gets slow you will be laid off (or "reduced in status," which is to say made part time involuntarily, as I was) rather than transferred to another division with more work.

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Pros

Good culture, reasonable expectations for position duties

Cons

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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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