Toxic Leadership & Death By Timesheet Culture - Director Tetra Tech Employee Review

1.0
28 Jul 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Staff at the coal face delivering for their Clients sure excellent and a huge asset.

Cons

- “Death by Timesheet” culture that arrives with the new American owners. - Accountancy/ Finance driven and dominated decision making process from the Senior Leadership Team, none of whom are fee earning, work-winning or indeed Client-facing! - Risk averse SLT in the extreme to the point that they turn superb work away as they don’t believe in or trust and empower their staff to deliver for their Clients. - American Corporate Consultancy giant culture being brought into play by owners TetraTech who are still making their mind up what to do with the business and how to change it to what they want to do. - Appalling pay rises- lack thereof- to high performing teams who repeatedly delivered for them, and definitely one rule for certain parts of the business that had the CEO’s ear, than for others.

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5.0
28 May 2026
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Pros

Excellent flexibility in project work. Good people to work with.

Cons

A good amount of travel, not much PTO.

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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