Jacobs Structural Engineer II reviews

4.2

91% would recommend to a friend

(71 total reviews)
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Bob Pragada

98% approve of CEO

86% positive business outlook

Structural Engineer II employees have rated Jacobs with 4.2 out of 5 stars, based on 71 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Structural Engineer II professionals have an excellent working experience there. Jacobs is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Structural Engineer II professionals compared to other employers within the Servicios de construcción, reparación y mantenimiento industry (3.7 stars).

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71 reviews
2.0
Nov 7, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

No particular pressure to work overtime. Supportive of work from home

Cons

Hierarchical organisation, where strategy decisions are reported from the top, and change moves very slowly. An example of the above is the drive to force off-shoring from low cost centers into doing highly complex work. The work is poor, the communication worse. No one in the rank-and-file likes it, however reporting about it to middle managers has little visible effect. Senior engineers are usually not technically skilled, as they get given all the coordination and resourcing tasks of which there is a lot, so you rely on the scattered few engineers who've resisted getting into management to answer the hard questions, although this seems to be a trend in tier 1 consultancies. Engineers are often moved around between projects frequently, which encourages complacency that someone else will fix mistakes or designs with insufficient detail, although this is an issue with the large contracts Jacobs receives as contracts go for so long.

4.0
Oct 31, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Large employer, large projects, interesting work, good people

Cons

Large employer limits some growth opportunities

4.0
Aug 26, 2021

Not too shaby

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Opportunities for movement physically and organizationally

Cons

Lots of red tape and you are just a cog in the system

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