Environmental Scientist - Anonymous employee Tetra Tech Employee Review

3.0
30 July 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

As long as you are billable and meeting project deadlines/responsibilities, you are set and will have a lot of flexibility (i.e. working from home) and on your own schedule. Over the years, I have done a variety of office and field projects, and feel this has given me greater perspective on the environmental industry. Tetra Tech does perform a lot of different types of work.

Cons

When work slows down, a lot of onus is placed on the employee to find their own work and maintain utilization. Heavy emphasis on utilization. The down-side of this is that in any given year, your most important goal will likely be to remain highly billable and/or bring in work. You will likely get stuck doing mundane work to meet utilization requirements. Training/mentorship and employee development is not a priority. Doing good or even excellent work on assignments is not enough to significantly advance your career.

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Pros

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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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