Jacobs reviews

4.0

81% would recommend to a friend

(7,761 total reviews)
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Bob Pragada

90% approve of CEO

69% 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
3.0
Aug 28, 2010

OK place to work

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Starting pay and benefits were very competitive (although benefits were horrible after being bought by Jacobs Engineering.) The program manager was a great guy and was easy to talk to. Most of the upper management seemed to make themselves very available to their employees. Good about time off.

Cons

Front line management was poor. Very little room for growth. After being acquired by Jacobs Technology, corporate culture changed for the worse. Jacobs seemed very disinterested in employees (Tybrin management was still in place, and they were still good).

1.0
Aug 13, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Jacobs offers a flexible schedule. Instead of having separate sick leave, all time off is put in a PTO category, so if you don't get sick, you get an extra week of vacation each year.

Cons

There's no room for advancement. Management is incompetent, and most have no management skills to speak of... There is incredible disparity in salaries. When problems arise, they believe assigning more extremely highly paid people at it to fix it, and when those individuals fail to help matters at all, nothing is done.

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