Jensen Hughes reviews

3.9

74% would recommend to a friend

(43 total reviews)
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Raj Arora

75% approve of CEO

63% positive business outlook

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2.0
Jul 15, 2018

Wasn't A Good Fit For Me

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Pros

- Flexible working hours, ability to work remote from home - Above average compensation - Partners are well established, many knowledgeable experts

Cons

- Primary focus seemed to be expanding services and having a nationwide presence, rather than concentrating efforts and resources on building up one region at a time. Seemed to be a quantity vs. quality approach. - After multiple acquisitions, JH now consists of a collection of unrelated businesses with little overlap. The merger actually made things worse for me, since the company slogan did not really fit the needs of some potential clients I was marketing to. - Nonstop internal accounting and billing headaches. Frequent miscommunication between JH and the legacy companies. - Too corporate-like, which means it takes forever to get formal approval on simple things such as adding website content or posting announcements on social media. - Difficult to grow a practice with limited resources. Too many budget restrictions led to me watching competitors collect truckloads of work from the sidelines. - Some equipment provided to employees were "hand me downs". The local police investigator owns a more advanced camera than what I was initially given. - Old fashion schemes, we are still asked to cold call potential clients to generate business.

4.0
Jul 15, 2018

Great Technical Staff

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Pros

Interesting projects, great co-workers, decent compensation. Flexible work schedule. People who are good at project execution tend to do well here.

Cons

I can see by some of the other reviews that the work experience is not consistent across offices and business lines. There were a lot of recent mergers, so there are various cultures in the different offices and product lines. It's going to be hard to figure out from the glassdoor reviews if an office is one of the good ones. The company is PE (LBO) owned, so leaders don't always make the best long term decisions. I can't fault Senior Management for that. Accounting can be painful.

3.0
Jun 22, 2018

Greedy Management

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Pros

Provides high quality, peer-reviewed forensic work for its clients.

Cons

Little useful administrative support, with plenty of accounting headaches I just learned the company let go a 65 year old senior engineer who served there for 16 years. His severance pay offered after 16 years was two months salary. Salaries in Seattle do not come close to covering the high cost of housing there. The support staff who is expected to provide equipment has no no budget to do it. When I was there, some employees have had to purchase their own equipment such as high quality cameras that essential for forensic work . Turned a regional forensic engineering firm that had a strong, collaborative , productive culture among its engineers into a virtual ghost town in less than two years after acquiring the company. Secretive, self-serving, self-promoting management Pathetically small salaries and raises for technical and engineering staff given the huge hourly rates and increases in billing rates. Huge salaries and bonuses for the unproductive management.

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