Jacobs reviews

4.0

81% would recommend to a friend

(7,775 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 7,775 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 Construction, Repair & Maintenance Services industry (3.7 stars).

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8K reviews
1.0
Jan 25, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Jacobs is a large federal government prime contractor, lots of interesting work in the Aerospace industry and Defence Industrial Base (DIB).

Cons

Jacobs Information Technology does not understand the requirements of the federal government with regard to data handling, processing, and the supporting infrastructure. It's difficult to sleep knowing that federal data may be exfiltrated to a foreign national.

5.0
Jan 16, 2023

Great place to begin a career

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Opportunities for power and I&C for several different types of projects Lots of new projects being won, no shortage of work Corporate focus on culture does improve the quality of colleague interaction Remote opportunities

Cons

Training is a crash course and can be daunting for a new engineer Hard to meet with mentors because of high workload for experienced engineers

1.0
Dec 30, 2022

Don't work here.

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Is a paycheck. That's all that's good here.

Cons

They work with government projects and is their aim to be inefficient as possible to get as much money as they can from their projects. I signed a sheet of code conduct and yet they invent rules all the time that are not in the paper itself. Be very careful if you work in this place because they have some really shady practices. Avoid if possible.

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