Jacobs Employee Reviews
Out of 285 Jacobs employee reviews, 82% were positive. The remaining 18% were constructive reviews with the goal of helping Jacobs improve their work culture. The Customer Support team, with 100% positive reviews, reports the best experience at Jacobs compared to all other departments at the company. The IT team offered the most constructive feedback, with 33% of that department's reviews constructive in nature.
Briefly describe your overall experience at your company
Review from Engineering Dept
What do you like best about the leadership team?
connected with their people, easy to approach
Open to listening and moving the company forward with a clear vision for our path
Ability to adapt quickly to provide solutions
Regular updates on the strategy and direction of the company.
Available when needed. Open door policy l.
What does the leadership team need to get better at?
Start investing in the company and employees
Require masks and vaccines oer federal madate
Everything. Recruiting, pay, onboarding. Retention.
Sr leadership could do a better job at listening. Staying positive. "If everything is a priority, nothing is a priority." They could be more selective on what they force into unrealistic timelines. Treating issues as a chance to learn instead of an opportunity to berate employees in front of others.
Review from IT Dept
Our team had a great manager who they let go for political reasons. My current manager does his best. Their manager could a better job listening to the needs of their subordinates and of caring about the workers.
What is the best part about your compensation package?
Discounted stock purchases after one year.
401K 8% match best I've seen.
equitable pay and work schedule
For me, it's the salary. I'm retired military, so I don't use the medical options.
Parental leave for new parents, agile working arrangement and family benefits
Why do you feel undervalued and what would make you feel better about your compensation?
Compensation is fine - difficult to work with immature leadership
All focus is on shareholders and profit rather than compensation for work done
I am not paid much - better pay for a multi-billion dollar company would be nicer!
My current salary is about 40% below the market average; the type of engineering I do is hyper specialized, and half of the time my supervisor doesn't know what I do. The work is interesting, but the pay isn't acceptable.
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What are some of the best things about your team?
Highly knowledgeable and driven professionals
Coworkers prop each other up.
Long time collaborators and friends
We're able to work collaboratively and value everyone's opinions/suggestions. We can have open, honest conversations because we're focused on doing the right thing.
Collaboration, team work and structural organisation
What do your coworkers need to improve and how could you work together better?
Follow federal covid mandates as required
Being more inclusive and welcoming to new members of the team and or to the company
Review from Engineering Dept
most have already retired from one job, and working as "something to do".
Review from Engineering Dept
What is most positive about the culture and environment at your company?
I can be myself at work
Managers that don't micro-manage staff
It has relaxed culture with less bureaucracy.
Review from Engineering Dept
Inclusive and diversity cultures are highly implemented in Jacobs
The support coworkers give each other
What needs to change to make the company culture better?
Sr Leadership should appreciate its employees and celebrate successes. Compensation should be given with promotion. Sr Leadership should clear road blocks for employees within its processes. Better technical training should be given, greater education should be rewarded and encouraged.
Review from IT Dept
Local Management Behavior Change will help to re-establish the healthy office Culture
Review from Engineering Dept
More team building, better leadership and mentoring within the departments
Review from Engineering Dept
The the incompetent people who are protected based on nepotism and favoritism
Review from Operations Dept
Pay people fairly so they can afford cost of living.
What did you like most about the interview process?
A broad interview panel to allow for healthy discussion of candidates skills and fit for the team
The team is willing to tell their experience in Jacobs
It was friendly and without any classic interview questions, strength weakness etc. An honest conversation of experience and expectations
Verifying what skills I had and being able to showcase them
The questions were 6, and I was asked one after the other.
Review from Engineering Dept
What would you improve about your company's interview process?
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What makes you most happy at work?
Being with people who share my same passion for making the world a better place for everyone
Friends that i work with daily
Working with clients - being at client sites.
Autonomy of work, WFH hybrid work
Working for a large corporate and a vibarant culture
Review from Engineering Dept
What's going wrong and how can it be improved?
Read your contract with them before you speak.
Review from Engineering Dept
The requirements for promotion are inconsistent and change based on who you talk to. Company should provide clear roadmap for what is needed to be promoted and what is expected that is different in each position. Once the roadmap is created for each position it needs to be clearly communicated.
Review from IT Dept
There is a certain immaturity as to how things are formally handled. The company can be relaxed, but perhaps too relaxed?
Review from IT Dept
It is the weird culture protecting incompetent employees
Review from Operations Dept
They need to listen to the front line people.
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