Jabil reviews

3.7

71% would recommend to a friend

(2,887 total reviews)
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Mike Dastoor

81% approve of CEO

58% positive business outlook

Jabil has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 2,887 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Jabil employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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3.0
Dec 13, 2022
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Pros

Overall I think Jabil is a good company

Cons

That PTO you get - yeah, you're forced to give that up at the end of the year. The last two weeks there's a corporate shutdown, and any day that is not a holiday, PTO is required to be used for. Check the 2022 calendar. That's seven days of PTO employees would automatically have deducted from the HR system. If you don't have enough, you go into the negative. Want to quit? That negative amount gets deducted from your last paycheck. So "10 days" this year was actually three. I wasn't told any of this during interviews and when I confronted them, they knew they were caught.

1.0
May 25, 2020

Stay away from Jabil Fremont

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Pros

If you are a relative of a person working in an upper management or who has a hold of, you will be treated well and get quick promotions, and if not, I would suggest looking for other companies. Benefits are okayish (much lesser than many other companies around in the bay area) because you'd be enrolled in the Jabil payroll.

Cons

I worked at Jabil Fremont for almost a year. The entire company was an earlier mom & pop shop which became something big and was bought by Jabil. Most of the "True Tech" employees (earlier name of the company) even after 1 year of the merger are still the same and the culture has not changed even a bit. Each employee is a relative of one or the other person which would be on higher positions. Being said this, if something goes wrong, each relative would stand for someone else and the person not having any contact would be the scapegoat. Complaints, even if heard by any personnel or HR, would just see the trash bin and nothing would happen except the complainer's name would be out and everyone would know, who complained about whom which might turn out to be very bad. The company management tends to micro-manage each second (at least in the team I was a part of). My manager would treat his team as more like slaves rather than respecting respective engineers and his subordinates. Upper management thinks as if they are the owners of the company and can do any and everything. Hardly you would get any credits for any good work, because management would take that and you would be bashed even for the work you are not responsible for, if things go bad (specially if you are newcomer and you don't have connections). [Additional points:- I was asked on the day of orientation 1st day of my work as why did I decide to join this terrible company and if I had some other options, then to choose that.... should have listened to him :( ] This being said, there are few handful employees which are very good and supportive which would guide you and help for your growth and betterment. If you are in that team, you are lucky.

2.0
May 9, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Easy Interview Process Ability to move to different departments. Office in a good location.

Cons

Extremely Poor management style where project managers don't know ANYTHING about technical development but have level of arrogance like they know everything. I would have more respect for Jabil in General if the PM's were technical. Jabil would be a good company to work for IF they hired competent PM's with real technical experience and if they had realistic deadlines, but because Jabil doesn't do that, I can't say its a good company to work for especially if you have a bad PM. Just because the PM has a "good image" to higher management doesn't mean the PM is qualified.

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