Great engineering staff held back by penny-pinching Luddite executives. - Anonymous employee Jacobs Employee Review

3.0
Oct 20, 2011
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great projects, good people in intersting locations.

Cons

Innovation and enterprise are sacrificed on the high altar of "billability", too often project managers produce budgets on schemes using outmoded & out-dated technology and workflows, because they only understand the technology of 20 years ago, and the specific costs of on a project, and not even aware of the recent innovations, or wanting to be aware whilst Jacobs competitors race away. GVPs, and VPs are worse - living in a bubble of first class air travel and expense account lunches whilst the engineering staff that provide that lifestyle use computers held together with duct tape.

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