Jacobs reviews

4.0

81% would recommend to a friend

(7,771 total reviews)
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90% approve of CEO

69% positive business outlook

Jacobs has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 7,771 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
1.0
Sep 13, 2010

Possibly the worse job I have ever had

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Pros

A good range of projects due to the large nature of the company

Cons

Top down, bullying aggressive management approach. Deceitful, assistant MD in Environment in Glasgow is positively bigoted and very incompetent. It is who you know not what you know that gets you any rewards. The most pertinent comments here are the lack of respect for knowledge, not a good trait in a consultancy that aims to sell this commodity. Very poor service to clients but very good at hiding the fact.

2.0
May 13, 2010

Fairly chaotically run at management level

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Pros

The offices are clean and bright, in a great location. The staff are friendly and good to work with. Beyond zero does work in creating a culture of safety.

Cons

Management give the impression of chaos. Systems being used are overweight and completely in appropriate for the work being carried out. Morale in the office is very low. Staff who carry out the work are fired or are permanently kept under staffed in their department, whilst Managers are hired to keep checking what is going wrong with jobs ie billability rather than helping process the work. as mentioned in pros; Beyond zero does work to an extent, but it goes too far sometimes with ludicrous suggestions which are unworkable and devalue the basic concept. Staff benefits on paper seem good, but due to the long winded and bureaucratic systems, I with drew from all of them, even though money was still being withdrawn from my pay packet months later. Nepotism does appear to be a factor with siblings being hired by management. Management style (locally) appears to consist of 'shouty' emails and a blame culture of everything is the employees fault and not the systems. I'd like to add that my line manager has finally been replaced and my immediate manager is good. Higher up the managerial ladder appears a morass of conflicting interests triplicating of information and constant tinkering with forms which necessitate relearning what should be simple tasks over and over again. In whole it is quite demoralising.

1.0
Mar 4, 2010

People are our greatest tools...

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Pros

Great company to work for provided that you work in an industry/field/market wherein the company makes a substantial portion of its profits (or so I'm told).

Cons

Bad company to work for in an industry/field/market wherein the company makes less a profit. Too busy acquiring companies without fully understanding what made said companies profitable in the first place, or how they maintained and generated new business. Very little training opportunities. Company is completely tone-deaf when it comes to the needs of their staff. Wants to give much of its domestic work to their international offices for cheaper labor to maximize profits. Laughable compensation in my particular line of work.

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