Jensen Hughes reviews

3.9

74% would recommend to a friend

(242 total reviews)
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Raj Arora

75% approve of CEO

63% positive business outlook

Jensen Hughes has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 242 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Jensen Hughes 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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242 reviews
2.0
Jul 16, 2018

Originally gave good review now changing course

Anonymous employee
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Pros

The most talented and dedicated engineers in the industry, by far.

Cons

Griffin Investors is the worst thing that has happened to this company. They do care about the employees, work or clients. There investment is only short-term and are just looking to put as much cash in their pockets as they can before they selling off their interest. Vacation time, holidays and sick time all count against utilization making it very difficult to have any kind of work-life balance. Unless your a single 20'something it just is too difficult to balance, company makes it next to impossible to have a family and make utilization and client demands. Billing and financials are a mess. Spent hours upon hours correcting financial errors. Engineers don't want to be spending hours on financial errors or chasing open invoices from 5 years ago , this a terrible use of resources The PM "seller do-er" model is so antiquated. It leaves some engineers completely overworked and others sending out company emails begging for work. Here''s and idea... why not invest in some type of resources management tools which ensure the best talent is matched to the right projects and that work is leveled across the company

2.0
Jul 15, 2018

Wasn't A Good Fit For Me

Anonymous employee
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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.

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