Looks great from the outside - Staff Engineer Tetra Tech Employee Review

2.0
Aug 1, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

As stated before there is an incredible amount of technical resources within the company. Extremely bright, informed and knowledgeable people.

Cons

Health care plan leaves a lot to be desired. Lower tier provider used. Poor communication from immediate management to employees. Individual divisions stay individual. Rules established for crossover work are not mutually beneficial to all divisions involved and it is completely dollar driven. The corporate culture is all about the shareholder, not about the people that are actually making the money for the shareholder. If you don't have billable time, your down the road weather you have any influence over your workload or not. Forced to use vacation time to avoid being laid off and keep the appearance of utilization up.

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5.0
May 3, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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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
Business Outlook

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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