Jacobs reviews

4.0

81% would recommend to a friend

(7,761 total reviews)
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Bob Pragada

90% approve of CEO

68% positive business outlook

Jacobs has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 7,761 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
2.0
Sep 7, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

An upward moving company which pays well.

Cons

Low morale and unfair promotion practices. Absolutely no recognition for a job well done. A culture of "you can easily be replaced" is prominent and pompously embraced. The motto "people are our greatest asset" can be a slap in the face. Wrong people are placed in management positions, and continuously make bad judgements regarding promotions. managers performing reviews sometimes don't work in the same state and have no clue what a person's job really entails.

2.0
Sep 2, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

What keeps me going is the 9 day fortnight system the office has adopted. Knowing that every other week is only 4 doors makes me quite happy.

Cons

Where do I begin ? On the surface and in some areas Jacobs is a fantastic company, unfortunately due to the number of smaller companies that have been purchased there are some cracks within the machine. The lack of integration of some of the purchased companies into the main Jacobs' system really lets things down. It can seem very fragmented when people refer to the old companies that existed before Jacobs purchased them. Sometimes communication isn't always that great and it can be difficult to find out the basics. There are different company intranet systems which can be confusing. There's also a lack of consistency across the group with regards to how people are treated. Jacobs employees can share an office building yet be given widely differing packages and opportunities - this boils down to the part of Jacobs they joined and the relating historic legacies.

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