A good company with the potential to be a great company. - Anonymous employee Jacobs Employee Review

4.0
Jul 26, 2011
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Very competitive salary structure with lot of opportunities located all over the world. Jacobs is a very conservatively run, multi-disciplined, well managed, and financially solid firm.

Cons

A myriad of sub-corporations further broken down by regionalized structure makes knowledge/experience transfer problematic; and at times, creates artificial barriers that can get in the way of pursuing/winning marquee projects. A fierce, restrictive control of overhead expenses reduces efficiency and at times, bottlenecks approvals at unusually high levels.

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