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
1.0
Jan 1, 2016

Administration

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The PM's and actual workers are great to work with.

Cons

Upper Management is horrible they can't decided who or what we are. They don't care about the people that actual do the work and keep the work coming in. If you are a young good looking female or brown nose male you will get well take care of even if you incompetent. No money for training and when they lay people off you must take up the slack and not compensated for it. Some of the merged companies in the building get compensation time, some get it but only if they are working proposals and some have to just give it to contributed time, nothing is the same even though they say we are the same company. When they lay people off even with over 10 years they will give them a 2 week notice and no severance, depending on which division you are in and came from. The benefits are horrible, very high insurance and deductible, so don't get sick. The insurance split is 60/40 worst for large DoD contractors (worked for a few and have friends who still work for many). Your lucky to get a 1.5% increase even though insurance has doubled in the last couple of years. If you are on an Award Fee contract do think your going to see much of that either they tend to keep most of it.

2.0
Dec 2, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Average salary and benefits. Reasonable 401k matching. Interesting (at times) work. Little travel.

Cons

Third class serf. Bottom of food chain (under Gov't and MIT/MITRE) although in many cases, providing the substance of technical expertise. Amazing. Also, no provision for sick time. Cold, flu, snow day...hey, just use your limited personal (vacation) time while the gov't team gets seemingly unlimited "compensation". Yup, THAT builds team cohesion!

1.0
Oct 14, 2015

Program management

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

None. This place does not give you a raise

Cons

No pay increase in three half years. Jacobs motto is Beyond Zero. What this really means is below zero in terms of a raise. You are only hired for the contract you are on... Once it's over. Good Bye. No room for advancement. Cheap cheap company.

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