Jacobs reviews

There is no such thing as work/life balance, especially if you are in an overhead salary position. Management and Leadership teams provide little to no leadership. The few good managers that are around or come around wind up getting run off by leadership. Unless you are a "YES" person, you will not make it. Leadership does not want to hear the real issues, challenges or obstacles. Meeting the deadline given is all that matters. Deadlines expected to be met are unrealistic and set lower levels up for failure. There are too many status chasers vs actual project managers and leaders in management roles which leads to poor directives, tons of rework, and confused staff. Tons of leadership comes and goes but the same trends seem to happen which tells me the problem lies with the CEO.

I worked in the Jacobs Denver office and was literally told by my manager (in writing) that time spent getting water, using the restroom and chatting with colleagues was not billable to overhead or to project budgets. My group was also discouraged from taking PTO over Christmas because it would impact our group billability. Our bi-weekly staff meetings were canceled for a two month period for this reason as well. With the recent CH2M aquisition, a number of people were leaving, and the atmosphere in the office was very negative. The list of CEOs that was announced after the aquisiton was 99% male, yet the company claims to care about diversity. The office is stale, poorly laid out and heavy with senior management. Management is disengaged and only cares about profit.