Jacobs reviews

4.0

81% would recommend to a friend

(7,773 total reviews)
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Bob Pragada

90% approve of CEO

69% positive business outlook

Jacobs has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 7,773 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
3.0
Feb 26, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Very diversified and has deep technical capabilities. Upper management is continuously trying to improve return profits to stock holders and has done a good job at loosing customer focus.

Cons

Pay exceeds industry while vacation and holidays are lacking. 6 paid holidays is the lowest in the world. Marketing style is not effective in all markets. High turnover and low quality due to chasing large jobs with non aligned teams.

3.0
Feb 13, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Many projects Lots of opportunity if you play the politics right Cares about your safety

Cons

No bonuses in the corporate structure accept for those at the top No pay raises in 2016 No development plan for employees No mandated train program accept for safety You'll likely see a manager once a year if your lucky

1.0
Jan 18, 2016

Race to the Bottom

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Work-Life Balance, Nice Coworkers (changing quickly as revolving door is picking up speed)

Cons

1. Benefits 2. Pay-raise (frozen as a company policy) 3.Worst PTO policy (Forced to take 2 weeks between Christmas and New Year) 4. No Training or Career Development 5. When they need you, you are the king but when they think they dont need you as much they behave very badly 6. New CEO comes from a manufacturing sector, where most of his experience is working with blue collar workers, not consultants and white collar workers. Thus, the policies he is trying to enforce seems to be misguided. 7. Too many VPs (There is a joke that we might have a VP for Sanitary product procurement)

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