Worst company in the industry, stay so far away from these predators - Protected Species Observer Tetra Tech Employee Review

1.0
15 Jan 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Literally nothing at all, predatory, underpaid, overworked, illegal slave-like practices.

Cons

The staff consists almost exclusively of a roster of desperate people trying to get experience, or people from other countries with a lower cost of living. They put unqualified and inexperienced people in higher level positions because nobody wants to work for the pennies they offer, those people get an ego headcase and cause destructive issues across projects and take no responsibility at all. The company seems to be in a perpetual state of either an existing project disaster, or heading towards the next one with fantastic incompetence. The managers take zero accountability for their decisions, actions, or for their company as a whole. They respond to the chaos they create by leaving their undervalued staff rescue every situation without any support. You'll spend most of your time pandering to the managers narcissism and egotism, or suffering their outlandish ignorance. Save yourself the trauma and look elsewhere unless you like being paid essentially minimum wage and trying to navigate absurd obstacles with no help and then get yelled at while trying to do your job. They have been reported to BSEE, NMFS, BOEM, etc. for illegal work practices and I hope in the future they get out of this industry entirely or a massive lawsuit entails.

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5.0
3 May 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Good culture, reasonable expectations for position duties

Cons

Difficult to receive any out of cycle raises/promotions

3.0
19 Apr 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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