Jacobs reviews

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

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
2.0
Jun 10, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Some great projects, good reputation in the industry. Also some good people work there. Many offices to choose from, including international.

Cons

People treated like assets (i.e. this asset is too expensive, cheaper to replace with a younger, hungrier one). All decisions are based on "business", not loyalty, work ethic, commitment, etc. Huge emphasis on cost, goes cheap on everything. No training budget. No marketing (we're a "relationship" based company). Horrible IT systems and support.

1.0
Mar 17, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

None, just the Pay, the flex time and earned time after 10 years of service

Cons

Managers, More Managers and all Discipline Managers, they don't know anything about respect, there are no rules they can curse, they can be loud and they just don't care, a law suit waiting to happen, the good-ole boy network is alive and thriving, if you can't do the job you are promoted, there are some people that do their check balancing and personal work on company/client time.

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