Jacobs reviews

4.0

81% would recommend to a friend

(7,771 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 7,771 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
2.0
Jul 3, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Job flexibility and security. Decent retirement and stock program.

Cons

If you're don't have a mentor that brought you on board to fight for you, you'll never get good raises or a bonus (which the lower levels NEVER get). There are many poor performers but management doesn't have the strengths required to document and remove those people. So, others are forced to do their own jobs as well as the job of the poor performer. Incompetence is often rewarded! As another poster stated, it's a good ol' boy system!

1.0
Feb 7, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

There are offices all over the world

Cons

They seem to buy up companies with out a clear picture of what to do with them unless that picture is simply to take projects that existed prior to their takeover and giving them to other Jacobs employees, while laying off those who won the projects originally. They make you sign off on their safety policies, but then (at least in my office) they tell you to do things against those policies. I imagine this must keep liability at a minimum.

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