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      4.0

      81% would recommend to a friend

      (7,763 total reviews)
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      Bob Pragada

      90% approve of CEO

      68% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.2

      Diversity & inclusion

      4.0

      Culture & values

      4.0

      Work/Life balance

      3.8

      Career opportunities

      3.6

      Senior management

      3.5

      Compensation and benefits

      Jacobs has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 7,763 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
      3.0
      Jan 2, 2009

      Jacobs Engineering

      Project engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Extensive information sharing between various employees at different locations, which will help greatly in starting on a new project in a new area. I can vouch for this from my personal experience because I had to start on a project that was located in a new geographical area that required application of procedures that were different from what I had been used to before I joined Jacobs. There was a lot of help from within the company to guide me with the initial stages of the project - and the time the employees spent on my project was not even billed!! High focus on safety of employees.

      Cons

      Bureaucracy. It takes forever for each decision to go all the way to HQ and come back. It took almost three months for a simple decision to be made about a software that cost less than $2000, to go all the way to HQ in California and get back. There is way too much red tape to be passed before any conceivable results can be achieved. The adjustment process from Jacob's recent acquisition of Carter-Burgess is still underway, and it is obvious that the folks at Carter and Burgess are not extremely pleased with the way this acquisition went at all.

      1.0
      Dec 20, 2008

      People are a disposable asset.

      Engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Pay is good for a sweatshop. When hiring, they will give you great promises of the projects that they have for you to work on and the size of the company. They are good at work sharing between offices as long as you do not include a Carter Burgess office.

      Cons

      85% chargeability or be gone. Leave & holiday days + training + staff meetings = 300+ hours/year = 15% overhead. So you must always be working on billable projects or you are gone. No support for marketing . Has no interest in smaller projects, only want multi-million dollar federal and industrial projects. Always looking to classify required work as extra work for a change order to increase fees.

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