Jacobs reviews

Jacobs Engineering offers a high rate of pay compared to other companies, especially for senior staff. The company is global and enormous by headcount, offering plenty of exciting work opportunities around the country and around the globe. The company's overhead is very low, giving it a big edge in winning work from competitors. Management genuinely cares about employee safety and job security and works hard to keep employees in good health in some dangerous work places like refineries, construction sites, chemical plants, industrial facilities, and pharmaceutical factories; and to keep employees busy earning money hand over fist for themselves and the company. The vacation/PTO policy was recently made very generous, with 3 weeks to start, 4 weeks after five years, and 5 weeks after 15 years. Jacobs also offers standard hours of four nine hour days and a four hour Friday, allowing employees to take long weekends by using just 4 hours of PTO, or working an extra 4 hours in the previous pay period. This is really nice around the summer holidays and the Thanksgiving/Christmas season. If an employee is in the 4 weeks PTO range, the employee can take off three Fridays per month indefinitely without exhausting the PTO allowance for the year.

You get a lot of exposure to new aerospace and defense technologies. Also, the ability to earn compensatory time (comp time) for any overtime that you work is great because you can either get time off for those extra hours that you earn, or have it paid to you at the end of the year.