Jacobs reviews

Not very strategically minded. No joined up thinking. Professional development suffers at the hands of utilisation.

It is not a place or work, do not take a job here. You will not develop your career as there is no competent support. All good staff are looking to leave. Too many people take time off with stress. Beyond Zero is double speak and entirely statistical based. Jacobs' competence in safety is actually very poor. The so-called culture of caring is non-existant. The culture is more Orwellian due to a chronic lack of competent leadership within senior management. Driving policy is restrictive and counter productive in terms of safety. The same policy does not apply to senior management who can drive wherever they like. People trying to do their job can be dismissed as a result of missing paperwork. Middle management actively seek out keen grads or experienced people within business units to manipulate into doing their work for them. When things go well they take credit for delegation & mentorship, when things go bad they throw the person under the bus and move onto their next victim. Incidentally, the majority of these middle management people are unchartered and incompetent. Where there is a person at Grade E to G talking in clichés, you will inevitably find a patsy under them stuck at Grade C or DD on the brink of depression. This is endemic across all sectors in Jacobs. The overall IT strategy is abysmal. Jacobs lags at least a decade behind its competitors and it isn't moving anytime soon. There is too much bad to list. Such a shame for the people working in IT whose jobs are made unnecessarily difficult. This filters down to delivery side who can have IT nightmares on a daily basis.