Jacobs reviews

4.0

81% would recommend to a friend

(7,766 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 7,766 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
Oct 24, 2010

BeyondZero? Are you kidding me?

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Decent salary and benefits, although benefits are self-administered. Decent time off, vacations, and holidays. Some sites seem to have a "family" feeling with lower level employees caring about each other even off the job.

Cons

Career advancement opportunities are limited -to-non existant, especially for women. Nepotism, cronyism, and favoritism run rampant. Management fosters the dysfunction by hiring and promoting those who are willing to look the other way, and by controlling the dissemination of needed information to only those who are willing to check their ehtics at the door. Publishing mission statements and white papers touting the company culture as one of caring is not an accurate portrayal of what actually happens in the "trenches".

3.0
Oct 20, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Money and benefits were exemplary

Cons

Typical DoD contractor. When contract was over everyone was out the door a minute later. If there were any remaining billets, seniority to the project was not a consideration for retention.

2.0
Oct 19, 2010

This company sux

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Some of the friendships developed while working there

Cons

Incompetent management. Their "employees are our greatest asset" slogan is phony. They do NOT care about their employees. People are like garbage to them and they just get rid of when they no longer make money for the company. There are no training or job advancement in this company. Good work goes by unoticed. If they can take advantage of you, they will.

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