Jacobs reviews

The people. Also, the lack of training and management support is pretty astounding. I was literally dropped in a cubicle, given access to a computer, and pretty much had to figure everything else out by myself. I don't know if it's like this at every office, but the people here are all very stuck up. It reminds me of high school where everyone has their cliques and tends to look down their nose at newcomers. Also, everyone seems to think that whatever it is they are working on is more important anyone else's. Which makes it difficult if you work on 12 different projects because you can expect to have 12 different people barking orders at you and demanding that their items be made priority. This type of self-righteous attitude has been consistent across the board from what I have seen. A lot of the time the people you work with can either make coming to work tolerable (or maybe even enjoyable) or they can make it absolutely miserable. Unfortunately in this case it seems to be the latter.

There is no such thing as work/life balance, especially if you are in an overhead salary position. Management and Leadership teams provide little to no leadership. The few good managers that are around or come around wind up getting run off by leadership. Unless you are a "YES" person, you will not make it. Leadership does not want to hear the real issues, challenges or obstacles. Meeting the deadline given is all that matters. Deadlines expected to be met are unrealistic and set lower levels up for failure. There are too many status chasers vs actual project managers and leaders in management roles which leads to poor directives, tons of rework, and confused staff. Tons of leadership comes and goes but the same trends seem to happen which tells me the problem lies with the CEO.