Jacobs reviews

4.0

81% would recommend to a friend

(7,770 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 7,770 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 11, 2015

Cheapest company I've ever worked for.

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Pros

Interesting, varied work. If you are an engineer/ designer, you may have a future.

Cons

Executive management nearly tanked the company buying a world-wide firm without doing their due diligence costing thousands their jobs when they had to cut overheads to pay for the turkey.

3.0
Jan 26, 2015

Fast paced environment, not enough resources

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Smart business strategies - diversification and focus on relationship based sales model helps them to be somewhat more stable than some others in industry. Strong safety culture. Benefits average for the industry, below average for Fortune 500 but that's typical for E&C. Satisfaction with your job will largely be dependent on your supervisor, so interview them carefully.

Cons

The company expects a lot but doesn't give you enough resources to do your job adequately. Very tight on any overhead money, they want to grow, grow, grow, but don't want to put enough money into building their internal infrastructure to support the growth. White males dominate, they say they support diversity but you don't see it in leadership. Tolerant of bullies in management if they achieve results. Open plan office at Corporate is hated by staff who sit on top of each other with no privacy.

2.0
Jan 7, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

The half-day Friday schedule was nice, but eventually other things made that benefit not worth the other negative items. Safety conscience. Steady employment through sheer momentum as a large company.

Cons

Constant looming burden of Utilization, regardless of how you performed as an employee. No rewards for going above and beyond the expected 'average' performance. No punishment for employees that don't pull their own weight and constantly perform below the expected 'average' performance. Every project consideration was mainly based on the ability to limit company liability. Smaller clients that we had served for years prior to the acquisition were not considered viable to continue to serve. Smaller project fee's not deemed worthy of even considering. Getting a project contract in place could take 6 weeks, while the client is waiting, due to the vast levels of approval that have to be waded through.

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