Jacobs reviews

4.0

81% would recommend to a friend

(7,757 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 7,757 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
2.0
Feb 2, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Pay compensation is fairly high, but often requires extensive travel to other Jacobs offices due to location of project.

Cons

Jacobs is a low overhead company, so layoffs are quick if the workload drops. Performance reviews are very infrequent. Advancement often based on good old boy network

4.0
Jan 30, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Interesting and varied work, well-known company, great benefits, highly-skilled co-workers, flexibility to work across technical disciplines, excellent customer rapport, opportunity to learn new technologies, high review ratings

Cons

Limited opportunity for promotion within a team; no clear communication of expectations; minimal performance feedback; lack of direction; disorganized; lack of team definition and cohesiveness; "pools" of workers with no clear responsibilities or ownership of tasks; no communication of organizational goals

4.0
Jan 27, 2010

Jacobs UK

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good pay compared toequivelent in the industry. Flexible working hours as long as the job gets done attitude. attitude to H&S particulary traving too much in a day is good. Made best effort to redeploy when role identified as redindant.

Cons

Can handle the big projects but in hard times struggle to win smaller projects as they are too expensive. Taken mobile phones off people in cost cutting exercise at cost of client communication. private car mileage rate never goes up when used for business travel. May suffer very badly from government and local council budget cut backs.

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