Jacobs reviews

4.0

82% would recommend to a friend

(7,777 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 7,777 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
4.0
May 17, 2016
Recommend
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Business Outlook

Pros

Working overseas the per diem was almost as much as my base salary and since I was out of the US the first 90k was tax free. work life balance was great if you didn't let your fellow coworkers get to you.

Cons

You never knew if your contract was going to be renewed so you didn't know if you'd be there another year, a lot of office politics, unfriendly and unprofessional coworkers **Never worked at the home office in Pasadena, so it could be different but as a project hire you pretty much feel like field trash

3.0
May 9, 2016

No new prospects...extremely negative outlook

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Multinational company with locations around the world. Interesting projects.Great people to work with. excellent life/work balance

Cons

lack of growth strategy. lack of training. People are our greatest assets is not implemented. shouldn't be a core value.

1.0
Apr 25, 2016

Do Not Work Here

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

There is nothing good to say about Jacobs

Cons

Terrible place to work. No leadership. Company didn't even have a business unit to support the office. Once work was gone; laid EVERYONE off. No quality control. Never had I seen so many errors in deliverable's - EVER!

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