Jacobs reviews

4.0

81% would recommend to a friend

(7,761 total reviews)
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Bob Pragada

90% approve of CEO

68% positive business outlook

Jacobs has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 7,761 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Jacobs employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Servicios de construcción, reparación y mantenimiento industry (3.7 stars).

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8K reviews
1.0
Jul 14, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The benefits were okay and the clients I dealt with were great

Cons

Management treated people with a great deal of disdain and disrespect, espcially women. I don't know if this ist ypical of a defense/ DoD contract, but if the USAF knew where their $430 million dollars were going, they would peobably have thought twice about awarding Jacobs this contract

1.0
Jul 13, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Had some very large and interesting jobs. Alot of very hard mid-level staff.

Cons

Cheap - when I worked for them in the mid 90's - we had a computer room! You had to sign up to use a computer! How ridiculous is that? For scientific work. Very old furniture from the 1970's. Too cheap to upgrade. Staff had to share very small offices - 2 or 3 people each. IF you were not 100% chargeable you went home without pay! Management kept too much to themselves and allowed very poor project management to go rampant. Too many layers of management. Program Managers basically did nothing. One of them watched TV in his office all day!

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