Jacobs Employee Job Reviews in the United States

"Jacobs Engineering is currently downsizing to survive."

What do you like about working at Jacobs?

"Making major Field Procurement decisions independently."

What don't you like about working at Jacobs?

"The refinery environment and middle management's indecisive style."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Major restructuring."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be very careful with this company. It is a boy's club. Women are not treated well."

What don't you like about working at Jacobs?

"The company is cheap and unprofessional. There is an employee revolving door on some contracts."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"You need to learn how to act professionally. Firing employees without following your own employee handbook does not look good to prospective employees or contracts."

What don't you like about working at Jacobs?

"To many levels of management to approval to purchase hardware needed to get the job done."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Allow individuals to make the final decision with only one level of management to purchase hardware."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Getting humble and hungry enough to compete in the marketplace so that the lay-offs will stop."

What do you like about working at Jacobs?

"My peers had great experience. I was very comfortable around them and freedom I enjoyed in working there."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"It is a great company to work for. You have to show that you are a self starter and proactive. Jacobs needs people who take initiative."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I am sure management does everything to obtain projects, if they can keep projects work consistent and provide feeling of stability to the staff, will greatly help with the morale."

"Good employer for folks who will work and put forth the effort required to earn a living"

What do you like about working at Jacobs?

"Thoes who do not work are let go , thoes who do get to work another day."

What don't you like about working at Jacobs?

"It is a career with limited growth potential, how ever they are growing and may require my assistance in teaching soon."

What do you like about working at Jacobs?

"My work had a noticeable impact for the clients, as well as my co-workers. It was a great work environment and the work structure was very flexible."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be confident in your abilities and take every opportunity presented to increase or advance them."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Take more calculated risks. Use internal estimates to win work and then buy the project out with competetive subcontract and vendor/material bids to increase the margins substantially as well as increase the level of overall performance by active and aggressive project management."

What do you like about working at Jacobs?

"It was a very laid back environment, and I only had to take one tram to get there."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"If you know how to make designs and/or animations oriented towards machinery used to build tunnels, you'd probably fit very well."

What don't you like about working at Jacobs?

"I have no complaints. I just didn't do a lot of Flash work there, and I would really like to do Flash."

"Father worked, their brother and myself, dependable company. Would go back if had an opening."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Always keep marketing the civil group on any civil projects, not just what is their specialty."