I should have kept looking... - Environmental Scientist Tetra Tech Employee Review

1.0
22 Sept 2012
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Pros

The Human Resources and GIS Departments were great to work with. IT support was good too.

Cons

Very high turnover in senior and junior staff and management. Few women in senior positions - certainly no where close to the 50 percent it should be. No training at the start - you are placed at a desk and then you are on your own. Written requests to management went unanswered - it was like a black hole. (eg, change of status, training and conference requests, etc). Little cooperation between the field scientists and much of the work is for the fossil fuel industry. The renewable energy department is non-existant and undersupported. The client-firm relationship is too friendly, favoritism abounds, and field observations were skewed in the reports, or buried, or in at least one instance, completely changed. Too many yes men. The office where I worked is not on a bus line for those who perfer public tranportation. There are a few individuals who are personally concerned with sustainability and even handled empting the recycling bins, but its pretty much a green wash.

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5.0
3 May 2026
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Pros

Good culture, reasonable expectations for position duties

Cons

Difficult to receive any out of cycle raises/promotions

3.0
19 Apr 2026
Recommend
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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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