Jacobs reviews

4.0

82% would recommend to a friend

(7,783 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 7,783 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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4.0
May 25, 2014

A Large Firm with Typical Challenges

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Pros

Pay is good and work can be interesting. Employee stock purchase plan is a nice benefit.

Cons

Career paths are ill defined and most career advancement decisions are extremely subjective. Hours, like any technical services firm, can be long. The growth strategy via acquisitions makes multi-office work challenging and little to no corporate culture. They need to invest more in technology and reliable systems so employees have reliable tools to get work completed. Often times, processes are archaic.

3.0
May 22, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Jacobs had good people and also had fairly good starting rates, beware of contract work - our teams contract was not renewed after 10 months.

Cons

The biggest challenge was working in contract work - I am used to full time work - our contract was not renewed.

3.0
May 20, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

The team I work with are great.

Cons

The problem that the managers can't manage, there were a lot of promises that this office will be very busy. but unfortunately it is the opposite.

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