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      4.0

      81% would recommend to a friend

      (7,764 total reviews)
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      Bob Pragada

      90% approve of CEO

      68% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.2

      Diversity & inclusion

      4.0

      Culture & values

      4.0

      Work/Life balance

      3.8

      Career opportunities

      3.6

      Senior management

      3.5

      Compensation and benefits

      Jacobs has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 7,764 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
      Jun 7, 2011

      Career mistake acceptin a job at this place

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      Had a competent and caring manager. Made some decent contacts with colleagues. Work environment was mostly friendly with lower level employees.

      Cons

      Senior management was incompetent. Poor business forecasting. One day you're being told the company is doing well, the next day you hear second-hand that a round of layoffs just occured.

      1.0
      Mar 31, 2011

      Get out before they crash.

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      The company has several contracts, and a lot of work to be done. But I don't think this will continue due to the lack of quality being produced.

      Cons

      Poor management... they waste most of the job budget on very high salaried people in meetings where very little if anything is accomplished. Then the rest of the team has to work late and on weekends to throw the drawings together.

      1.0
      Jun 11, 2010

      You get a paycheck but don't think about career growth

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      The colleagues that I met at Jacobs were all very nice and most are fairly good at what they do.

      Cons

      The company shuffle you like sardines in a box and move you to new offices when ever one project ends and you are fortunate enough to get on to another assignment. There are extreme favoritism by the management.regardless of your skills or qualifications or the results you delivered. This is extremely demoralizing. There is zero manager to employee feedback during the year and only on your performance review do you get a sense on how well or how poorly you've done in management's eyes. This typically is more subjective than objective and even when you've done significantly more than what the position calls for, you will be rated average.

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