Nowhere to Go - Archaeologist Tetra Tech Employee Review

3.0
Sep 30, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Big company, lots of offices to potentially move around to. My office allowed dogs.

Cons

Felt like my managers were stringing me along. I was repeatedly told if I "prove myself" I could move from hourly tech services to salaried. Never got a good answer for what that meant. When I asked for a raise I got it, but they just upped everyone else's pay too regardless of seniority and exzperience. Felt more like they were updating their minimum hourly wage then rewarding loyalty and hard work. Got told my work was an obscenity by my manager one time (not allowed to say the word on glass door) , then was told that assessment was based on reviewing an entirely different document drafted by an entirely different person. My work had not been read at all at that point. Not a very professional environment.

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5.0
May 3, 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
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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