Jacobs reviews

For your first month everyone will be friendly and promise you the world. The reality is nothing really gets done and everyone is unhappy except with the work from home. - incompetent leadership and a mess of company structure - poor salary and very little progression - terrible for development of new engineers (and older, but especially new) - lack of care for employees - lack of recognition for good work - leadership don’t care about you - no interesting project work

Low pay for the defense and intelligence space in the Washington, DC area (very high cost of living). Terrible on-site program management; management personnel who were retained after Jacobs acquired The Buffalo Group. Those managers were woefully under-qualified for their new positions with Jacobs and did not exhibit any leadership qualities. Three different Jacobs on-site managers failed to back me up when the customer wronged me. Two of those same on-site managers blatantly lied to me, stabbed me in the back, and I ultimately lost my job after being brushed-in with a group of employees getting laid off due to a contract reduction. There were plenty of billets available for good analysts and I could have had one of them if Jacobs on-site managers would have simply better better humans. I should have reported this all to HR but was afraid of reprisal at the time.