Jacobs reviews

4.0

82% would recommend to a friend

(1,265 total reviews)
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Bob Pragada

90% approve of CEO

69% positive business outlook

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4.0
May 30, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Huge variety of interesting, niche projects. Can work with teams and projects all around the nation and world. Good compensation for the industry.

Cons

Billable targets always an axe hanging over your head, and constantly staying billable leads to various undesirable sacrifices and trade-offs. "Unlimited" PTO mostly means time off is a mystery. Management at certain performance units can be short-sighted. Distributed nature of teams and management makes it hard to discipline egregiously underperforming employees (we had a team member blow our project but could not discipline them as they worked for another office). Some project teams are grossly disrespectful of work/life balance.

4.0
May 29, 2024

Culture

Recommend
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Pros

Very supportive environment. Very good management. Great work place. Fair.

Cons

Office location and interior not so great. Salaries not very competitive.

5.0
May 27, 2024

Great company

Recommend
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Pros

Relatively good communication from higher level decision makers. Stable hiring/firing.

Cons

Nothing significant. Some burnout and high performance expectations at times.

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