No work life balance - GIS Analyst Tetra Tech Employee Review

1.0
19 May 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Interesting Projects, Remote work, Opportunities for networking and working with different groups. Health benefits are good, 401k matching is so-so. (Read the fine print). Some flexible hours but not as much as lead on to believe.

Cons

Benefit time is horrible, expected to use PTO if there are less than 40 hours of work; which also makes job stability and taking PTO stressful. No on boarding process, barely any training. Asked to learn a lot on your own time while being overworked and not compensated for overtime or having enough billable hours to projects. Lots of micromanagement, led to believe that gaps in budgets mean that the employees are not efficient. Treated to feel as an independent subcontractor within your own group even though you are an employee. Pushed to help with business development even if it’s not part of your job description. Almost zero diversity (at least in my location).

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5.0
3 May 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
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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