Jacobs Employee Job Reviews in the United States

"You have to work hard at Jacobs. Sometimes you have to work til midnight."

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

"Be prepared to work late at night."

What don't you like about working at Jacobs?

"Working late at night."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Be more organized so that the designers don't have to redo their work."

What do you like about working at Jacobs?

"Working in the field, learning new jobs."

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

"Find work elsewhere."

What don't you like about working at Jacobs?

"Not being able to have your voice heard."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Be open to employee problems at work."

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 do you like about working at Jacobs?

"Enjoyed my responsibilities and duties and fellow employees."

What don't you like about working at Jacobs?

"Engineering/construction industry as a whole is shaky."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Motivation."

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."

"Good retail design company, but not committed to design excellence."

What do you like about working at Jacobs?

"Diversity of project types and leading a department."

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

"Be prepared for a non-open work environment and understanding that your growth will not come from mentoring. If you are a team player this is not for you."

What don't you like about working at Jacobs?

"Not committed to the design process and not team orientated."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"The senior management don't understand the theme process or retail identity through the relationship of architectural to interior to graphic design. Understanding streetscapes and signage to allure the customer."

"Temporary job, peaceful place to work."

What do you like about working at Jacobs?

"Very short time for my experience. No project was delegated to me."

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

"Go for it."

"Good starting point job."

What do you like about working at Jacobs?

"Very self-oriented and relaxed work atmosphere."

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

"Stick with the salary you want unless offered good benefits."

What don't you like about working at Jacobs?

"Little chance to move upwards in a career."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Listen to employee ideas."

"My job could be done cheaper in Mumbai."

"Fast-paced and challenging with not a lot of room for growth."

What do you like about working at Jacobs?

"It was challenging and the people were friendly."

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

"Be open and honest."

What don't you like about working at Jacobs?

"Not a lot of career development from senior management across the company."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Build your people."

"Good company to work for but employment can be affected by the vagaries of the energy market."

What do you like about working at Jacobs?

"Great company, there is always a challenge."

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

"No, not really, all in all a good company to work for."

What don't you like about working at Jacobs?

"Like any company providing contract services, job security can be tenuous."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Engineers' scope should be widened, there should be less specialization."

"Not a good place to work."

What do you like about working at Jacobs?

"The projects."

What don't you like about working at Jacobs?

"The management."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Change the management in the Battle Creek office."

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 good for a short while until management suffered the loss of a good man."

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

"Don't."

What don't you like about working at Jacobs?

"They ramp up and lay off."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Get a clue."

"Jacobs Engineering is great!"

What do you like about working at Jacobs?

"I like the professional growth ability here."

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

"The company is unfortunately now closed."

What don't you like about working at Jacobs?

"I don't like the long hours."