Jacobs Engineering Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Jacobs Engineering full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – - Nice people to work with, specially the engineers
- Location

Cons – - Unfair management (boss favors certain people)
- Benefit is below everage
- Lack of training & career advancement
- Too much overtime work
- Forced many experienced people out for no reasons

Advice to Senior Management – - Re-evaluate all supervisors

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Jacobs Engineering

Pros – As long as they leave you alone to do your work at the client site, it is actually not too bad.
Big company with fingers in almost any sector.

Cons – Management does not develop people at all.
No useful courses to take.
Uncreative culture with strong focus on safety.
Lack of career growth opportunities.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Jacobs Engineering full-time for more than a year

Pros – You get paid on time, they have a 9-8-0 work schedule, the building is nice, the bathrooms are kept immaculate, they have a parking garage, and they have a deli in each of the two buildings in Houston.

Cons – If you like being discriminated against and enjoy a company that picks and chooses which rules they want to enforce for certain people while ignoring others who blatantly violate those rules, then this is the place for you. What's not okay for you is perfectly fine for others to do. Just depends on who it is. It's the worst "Good Ol' Boys" company you'll ever find. They choose to enforce policies based on who you are, not what you do, and no one is treated equitably. You will be ousted for "violating" policies while 5 times as many people who do the exact same thing are never even approached for openly "violating" the same policy.

They will set you up so that it is impossible to accomplish what they ask, then accuse you of not performing, and, then they refuse to hear your side of any explanation. In 30 years of working in the engineering industry - as an engineer - I have never seen any company treat their employees as unprofessionally or as rudely as this company does. Run - don't walk - as fast as you can from this place.

Advice to Senior Management – You'd better take a close look at your Houston operation - a lawsuit is just around the corner for discrimination.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Jacobs Engineering full-time for more than a year

Pros – Good Pay and low stress.

Cons – Bad Benefits, Poor Holiday Time Off, Poor Medical/DENTAL/VISION, No Bereavment Leave, Poor Vacation Time, no loyalty to long time employees.

Advice to Senior Management – Keep long time employees and offer better benefits

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Jacobs Engineering

Pros – good pay, stable job for experienced, professionals. not good for new hiring, see a lot of people com and go.

Cons – poor upper management, dont know process technology, high turn over , i guess same as other companies, not a good place for people seeking job security.

Advice to Senior Management – keep good people, if you hired some one, not experience, you need provide training to them, not after 3 month, kick their ass.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Jacobs Engineering

Pros – Decent hourly pay rate
Adequate benefits package
401(k) match and stock options
That's pretty much it. They compensate well for the work we do. Don't expect more.

Cons – Weak management practices lead to incompetent people getting ahead, while truly proficient, dedicated workers get dismissed. Often times, there is no supervision and the "right" people take advantage of this by acting-out antics and unethical behavior.

Advice to Senior Management – I really don't think the leadership cares to hear any of my advice, nor do I care to give it. I'm not going to waste anymore thoughts on this company.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Jacobs Engineering

Pros – Had some very large and interesting jobs. Alot of very hard mid-level staff.

Cons – Cheap - when I worked for them in the mid 90's - we had a computer room! You had to sign up to use a computer! How ridiculous is that? For scientific work.
Very old furniture from the 1970's. Too cheap to upgrade. Staff had to share very small offices - 2 or 3 people each.

IF you were not 100% chargeable you went home without pay!

Management kept too much to themselves and allowed very poor project management to go rampant.

Too many layers of management. Program Managers basically did nothing. One of them watched TV in his office all day!

Advice to Senior Management – Get real about chargeablity!

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Jacobs Engineering

Pros – Had a competent and caring manager. Made some decent contacts with colleagues. Work environment was mostly friendly with lower level employees.

Cons – Senior management was incompetent. Poor business forecasting. One day you're being told the company is doing well, the next day you hear second-hand that a round of layoffs just occured.

Advice to Senior Management – If you are incompentent then this is a nice place to hide your weaknesses and collect a paycheck before you get a layoff notice. If your are skilled, dedicated and talented, you don't belong in the woeful environment.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Jacobs Engineering

Pros – Flexible hours and the availablity to take off as you please, but with no pay.

Cons – Benefits are now really not worth signing up for, you can probably get something better on your own, the quote people are our greatest asset is a false statement, I can say with no doubt the managers want nothing but the cheapest product with no regard for quality or safety, we have lost so many clients just with the mere mention of outsourcing our work and design.
The work that is sent out of this country is astounding, with so many people put out of work you have to wonder what is happening and how this is happening.

Advice to Senior Management – Stop putting greed as the number one driver and get back to the company that once was associated with quality and a quick turn around, right now we don't have the work or the people to do a quality job for anyone.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Jacobs Engineering

Pros – The company has several contracts, and a lot of work to be done. But I don't think this will continue due to the lack of quality being produced.

Cons – Poor management... they waste most of the job budget on very high salaried people in meetings where very little if anything is accomplished. Then the rest of the team has to work late and on weekends to throw the drawings together.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend