Meh - Anonymous employee Tetra Tech Employee Review

2.0
Jul 9, 2022
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

You can work from home. Decent health insurance. The people were usually pretty nice. A couple people just sucked in general, but I’d imagine it’s like that anywhere.

Cons

No chances for advancing your career. You have to threaten to quit just to get a small pay bump. It doesn’t matter how good your bosses think you are at your job, they’ll abuse the fact that you work quickly and refuse to compensate you for it. There was also a weird racial nepotism. The two project managers at AMT would hire almost exclusively other Indian people, regardless of whether they were any good a programming or not. There’s a disproportionate amount of Indian developers at L3 and L4 level (and in general) and only 1 of them program above a college freshman level. But that actually speaks to a larger issue: most of the developers, regardless of their title, aren’t up to par with what you would expect from someone who gets paid more than 15k per year to write code. There are a few great minds, but most have no business developing in a professional setting with their current skill level. Maybe that’s just the state of the candidates on the job market, but I have suspicions it’s just poor vetting during the hiring process. It’s not completely horrible, could be a decent first gig, but be prepared for a stagnant career and the general incompetence that will surround you.

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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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