Um, ah, you might be surprised about that. TT is barely holding it together. We hired a babysitter for them because they can't be trusted to get the job done period. If we don't trust them who does? I see bankruptcy coming. I bet this isn't going to be their only epic failure on the list of clients. There's a number of people who now think we will see the BFS near the end of Oct. They are citing other companies who are being impacted be the poor management decisions by TT. TT was supposed to be in expansion mode and fine tuning acquisitions. It sure doesn't look that way from the perspective of our babysitter. Expansion has failed miserably. Do some research on the Chilean office. Just a mere 60 employees and they can't manage that.
"Cons – Tetra Tech is a big company comprised of many acquisitions and each company operates separately. Incredibly frustrating to be chasing same clients within the same geographic area and management has absolutely zero interest in changing this culture. For over 10 years the company has does absolutely nothing to better integrate all the individual companies. When visiting an office in a new location you are treated like a visitor from a competitor and not at all part of the same company. Transferring to a different office is like applying for a new job. All the various P&L centers hoard work and will use your qualifications to win work that they have no intention of sharing with you. Salaries at Tetra Tech are definitely on the lower side in the industry and time office allowance is ridiculously limited."
"Cons – Management looks the other way when the client or subcontractor bullies employees. Complaints are rarely reviewed and action doesn't really get taken. The client has full control over all direction, resources, processes, and participants. Developers work on multiple projects but rarely together. Communication is poor. Very little time is spent developing applications. Most time is spent towards participating in meetings, sometimes about other meetings. People are put into positions they are not qualified for. There is favoritism with specific employees. There are multiple unreasonable constraints on development, such as performing development against databases that are behind numerous firewalls, causing development to take at least 10 times the norm. The tools are poor. Technology is about 5 years behind the curve."
