Jacobs reviews

4.0

81% would recommend to a friend

(7,771 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 7,771 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
4.0
Jul 26, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

Very competitive salary structure with lot of opportunities located all over the world. Jacobs is a very conservatively run, multi-disciplined, well managed, and financially solid firm.

Cons

A myriad of sub-corporations further broken down by regionalized structure makes knowledge/experience transfer problematic; and at times, creates artificial barriers that can get in the way of pursuing/winning marquee projects. A fierce, restrictive control of overhead expenses reduces efficiency and at times, bottlenecks approvals at unusually high levels.

1.0
Jul 14, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The benefits were okay and the clients I dealt with were great

Cons

Management treated people with a great deal of disdain and disrespect, espcially women. I don't know if this ist ypical of a defense/ DoD contract, but if the USAF knew where their $430 million dollars were going, they would peobably have thought twice about awarding Jacobs this contract

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