Jacobs reviews

4.0

81% would recommend to a friend

(7,753 total reviews)
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Bob Pragada

90% approve of CEO

69% positive business outlook

Jacobs has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 7,753 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Jacobs employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Construction, repair and maintenance industry (3.7 stars).

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8K reviews
1.0
May 3, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

I got an offer from this company on April 30th. After a few emails, I got in the mail a job offer and a cheque for $15K to go for training to Toronto. The offer came in a regular envelope, no company name on it and no address written from the sender. The cheque looks very good, so I went to the bank and it actually has the numbers from one of the real company accounts, but the account was closed, so no funds on it. The signature was printed from another document, does not look good. So I decided to go to the local branch and they told me that I was not the only one who got this scam, other people showed up one day before and some faxes were sent to them as well. Apparently this company closed their Toronto branch and they suspect from it.

Cons

Be very careful I am not sure what is behind all this, they never asked me for money, so at the end they are ruining innocent people that may potentially feel on this and will end up with no job and debt after arranging all for the 3 weeks training in Toronto based on a fraudulent cheque.

1.0
May 2, 2019

Disposable employees

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good pay and lots of overtime hours.

Cons

They'll ask you to bend over backwards with promises of long term employment. As soon as they've gotten what they want from you there will be a lay off with your name on it.

2.0
Jun 7, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Earned Days Off. Not much more than that.

Cons

Emphasis is on pushing work into India and taking the work away from local staff. The Canadian offices are littered with US expats which creates a sense of entitlement from the expats. This is a US company pretending to be a Canadian company. Training and career development is non-existent. Poor office morale.

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