Good Money, Bad Politics - Senior Software Engineer Tetra Tech Employee Review

2.0
Feb 28, 2012
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Pros

The pay is somewhat competitive. The building is located in a nice area of Camarillo. The lower management are very helpful and passionate about their jobs. The benefits are good.

Cons

Management looks the other way when the client or subcontractor bullies employees. Complaints are rarely reviewed and action doesn't really get taken. The client has full control over all direction, resources, processes, and participants. Developers work on multiple projects but rarely together. Communication is poor. Very little time is spent developing applications. Most time is spent towards participating in meetings, sometimes about other meetings. People are put into positions they are not qualified for. There is favoritism with specific employees. There are multiple unreasonable constraints on development, such as performing development against databases that are behind numerous firewalls, causing development to take at least 10 times the norm. The tools are poor. Technology is about 5 years behind the curve.

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5.0
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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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