Disfunctional Organization - Manager Tetra Tech Employee Review

2.0
Jun 15, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Travel to offices across North America, small office environment, good camaraderie and a generally nice people to work.

Cons

The company is a loose amalgamation of 200+ operating companies and 13,000 employees. The left hand of the organization does not know what the right hand is doing - at least that is the perception to their employees. The only thing head office is concerned with is that each office/division meets their chargeability quota. Also, the company is not aligned in their proposal submission process. On occasion we found out that we were competing against our sister companies, while at others, found that the exclusions that we had put in our proposals (for a lack of sufficient skills), were determined later to to be available in our sister companies. The senior management team does not provide a sense of leadership, a vision for the enterprise, and are inept at building the company, as a whole, in today's tough economy.

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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
Recommend
CEO approval
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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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