Environmental employees are expendable. - Project Scientist Terracon Employee Review

2.0
Nov 23, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Good place to train yourself for a better future.

Cons

Too many to list: poor managment, everyone is an expendable asset to be utilized in as casual a way as possible. All your clients will be taken, and then they will can you at the earliest available moment and then say it wa for cause. They hand out no severance at all and it take legal threats to get them to treat you right upon departure. They force you to sign non compete agreements that basically hamstring you afterwards. They have every desire to go after large jobs but due to a lack of available capitatl will never get a performance bond to proove that they can actually do the deed. They want to have a larger footprint but are not really inclined to do the deed legitimately. They also have multiple layers of burecracy that destroy budget, incurring change orders that destroy any client relationship you could cultivate or bring with you. Avoid them like the plague. Currently going through an informal RIF...that they are using every reason they can not to pay severance to anyone they are getting rid of...and all of them are on the environmental side of operations.

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2.0
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Pros

There is an ESOP - employer contribution is about 3 percent match Nationwide work Not just one sector of work

Cons

If you want to leave before 5 years is up you do not get all of your ESOP There is a lot of favoritism and not really corporate structure to how people get paid. ie the guy at the desk next to you might know a lot less and do a lot less and show up for the company a lot less and you'll still get paid the same or less than him regardless of credentials or how hard you work or who you ask about it - which maybe a lot of these larger firms are that way - however that promotes you leaving the company to get better pay and potentially never circle back to Terracon at all No residential work so there is a missing sector for experience

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