Jabil Reviews

Pros

Lenient work hours. Come in late and leave early if lighter work loads.

Cons

Politics within the office are a strong reason why people reason promotions.

Advice to Senior Management

Take new employee opinions and ideas more seriously.

Pros

benefits are great, training is awesome

Cons

not enough communication, no feedback on performance.

Advice to Senior Management

none

Pros

If you want to travel the world for free, Jabil corporate is the place to be. Lots of money is spent on sending employees to Asia, S. America and Europe.

Cons

When I first came to Jabil I heard about how poorly women are treated. I didn't believe it could be that bad...but wow. Now I can see what they meant. Upper management is full of men with huge egos and chest beating to get what they want.
No defined process that employees are required to follow so it's usually a free-for-all.
The salaries, bonuses and benefits are insulting.
You are expected to work many long hours towards unclear goals and deliverables.

Advice to Senior Management

Focus on hiring and listening to the ideas of smart, competant people, instead of blindly trusting those that are in positions just because they have been around for many years.

Pros

+good benefits, tuition reimbursement
+flexible hours
+employee empowerment to improve the workplace
+wide range of technology worked on
+large company with a lot of resources available

Cons

-serious lack of technical competency among technicians and engineers
-few mentors available
-managers frequently don't understand projects/problems/issues
-hours can be brutal, esp for non-salaries employees (drought/famine)

Advice to Senior Management

Save money in the long run by paying higher salaries and attracting competent workers. Good workers are much more productive, make fewer mistakes, and the effect is cumulative.

Pros

An huge global comany whit Lot of possible experience

Cons

Some time the pressure in cost and efficiency seems became paranoic.
Too much financial reports to be justified some time we lose focuse on real biz.

Advice to Senior Management

Less global corporate practice and reports and more plant and real life.

Pros

the people on the floor get the work done, everybody is willing to help you out when needed. Management is changing but still some choices have to be made for the long term.

Cons

still getting organized from the massive labour loss. Communication needs to improve and everything has to be to cheap will commiting to high quality. Higher managment has no clue what is going on the floor. Worker discipline needs to improve, but managment is not supporting this, Too many changes of management in a short period of time.

Advice to Senior Management

focus on the worker as they bring in the money. Listen to the people on floor and don't change to much.

Pros

Good company with a solid reputation. Growth has been amazing, especially given the economy of late. Clearly doing something right.

Cons

Not a terribly collaborative environment.

Pros

Nice place to work most times

Cons

Weather gets hot in FL

Advice to Senior Management

Good job.

Pros

above-the-avarage pay than other EMS companies

Cons

little job growth prospect for expatriates

Advice to Senior Management

Put more emphasis on new technology

Pros

Management team is a bunch of suckers, so you can get away with a lot.

Cons

Pay is crappy, benefits worst in the industry. Expectation is that employees will work 60+ hours a week (salaried) and then get "rewarded" with a 1% "Profit Sharing" distribution, while managers are raking in 20-30% QUARTERLY BONUSES. Why should anyone work harder than the managers and for peanuts?

Advice to Senior Management

Start appreciating your employees. Especially in the current economy - people can leave, and Jabils losing some of its best employees because they've been abused by the company throughout the Recession and now they're just fed-up.