Tetra Tech Reviews

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Time off policy is the only con.

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But on a project like Naples, it can be very demanding.

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A downside was the ups and downs of good days' bad days. It was nice having a good day and a lot of completes. But having a bad day where I felt like I was never getting through to the right person was rough, at first. As I got more experienced I didn't care as much. The other con is when I started I was assigned to a sophisticated commercial study, where I had to call businesses, reach decision makers, etc. But when that study ended I had some residential studies, which weren't as exciting. It wasn't a commission-based job, so the ups and downs weren't that big of a deal.

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Do not have cons to enter

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None that I can think of.

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Impossible to move up or even get a decent raise. So your research on how a career in consultant works. It is a different world. And Tetra tech is to the extreme a consulting job. To make it you ha e to work 100 hours a week.

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Depending on your department and your supervisor, pay could be well below industry standards. Sometimes the projects are non-technical. This is a huge company though, and many offices often handle different aspects of engineering, so it's a toss-up what your group will be like.

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Ive worked with several different firms with this one being the least comfortable and liked. I had an opportunity to work in my home state. Oklahoma city to be exact. The upper management is ran by some weasels. I was fired for not knowing how to use a certain program used by the state dept. Prior to being hired the hiring managers were informed i did not know how to use it. Instead of being trained how to use it i was terminated. Very unprofessional way of terminating someone if i may say as well. All i would say about this certain bunch of managers not the whole company just okc office in particular. They are not fair and there training of new employees is very poor. Company expects you to work out of town but will not let you pull your travel trailer to wherever the job sight might be at. Micro managed and treated unfairly if they dont like you. I believe i was wrongfully terminated. Ive asked for a termination letter its been over a week now. Still dont know my exact reason for termination. Also the perdiem is not fair if you are working out of town and a contractor decides not to work. You dont get PD for that day. Have a great day.

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Time off policy is garbage. You accrue PTO based on the billable hours to have at a set rate, so your timecard every week shows how many hours of PTO you have. However, TT actually stores your PTO in cash value, which changes the hours of vacation you have accrued. In other words, if you get a 10% raise, you will also lose 10% of the PTO you have accrued. They have also snuck in an additional "mandatory holiday" without increasing the PTO generation rate, so employees effectively lose a day of their vacation time. Often TT does not recognize or reward good work - there is no such thing as a retention budget. Not much stock is put in junior staff. Not much of a belief of overall wellness or work/life balance.

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Big company and at times hard to find what or who you're looking for.