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Productive and Friendly
Jacobs is an amazing company to work for. The leadership and other team members communicate very well with all of the employees and they have some of the best benefits! The workplace culture is extremely positive, which makes the job super enjoyable.
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A very basic firm
Typical day at work is reacting to whatever fire you must put out first. Lack of resources, lack of planning and lack of effective management make each day a fire drill rather than allowing staff to spend the required time focusing on projects. Good old boys club. Firm is only going after engineering projects and not creative or design projects. No bonus structure except for upper management. No benefits or acknowledgement for working hard - everyone gets the same raise each year. No reason to excel. Each department is siloed which creates problems on projects. It’s just a C grade architectural/engineering firm. Nothing special about its work. They pay well which makes up for the benefits, which are greatly lacking. It’s a job. Don’t expect anything more.
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Fun, Professional, But big company
Focused on Safety and Project Management.
Training focused to improve the worth of their employees for the betterment of their client base. Good people work at this company and work in teams.
Training focused to improve the worth of their employees for the betterment of their client base. Good people work at this company and work in teams.
Pros
Great company to retire from and training provided is great
Cons
Growing and loosing focus on employees in the field
Engineering firm with a strong blue collar orientation
Conglomerate built by many acquisitions bolted onto the core company, which is a construction company. The culture is command and control from the top down. The underlying processes and systems for dealing with staff fall into line with that culture. Many leaders have extensive tenure with the company.
Large company with problems.
The company is in a state of flux due to the recent acquisition of CH2M Hill and internally, it's a mess. Employees are waiting to hear if they will have jobs in the coming year.
Pros
Nice people.
Cons
Management is tight-lipped and lacks leadership.
Great opportunity to learn a lot of troubleshooting skills and Cisco commands.
Great opportunity to learn a lot of troubleshooting skills and Cisco commands.
Very fast paced work environment, dealing with day to day operations as taking phone calls, escalating trouble tickets and helping the customer resolve their network issues.
Very fast paced work environment, dealing with day to day operations as taking phone calls, escalating trouble tickets and helping the customer resolve their network issues.
Pros
Great opportunity to learn troubleshooting techniques
Cons
High turnover rate
Equips Employees w/- All They Need to Work/Accomodating
A typical day at work is fast-paced. I mean work and very little time to be social. Employees are nice, although not the most friendly.
I gained lots of knowledge on contracts and IT as it pertains to the private sector.
Management is on point. They have to be in order to make it thus far, and successfully.
In terms of culture- don't expect offers... You have to ask even when you don't know to ask.
I gained lots of knowledge on contracts and IT as it pertains to the private sector.
Management is on point. They have to be in order to make it thus far, and successfully.
In terms of culture- don't expect offers... You have to ask even when you don't know to ask.
Great place to work, with good/diverse backlog of projects
Busy workload which is great, but hardly any down time in between projects to archive files and do research to improve on practices due to a reluctance to use G&A(overhead).
Pros
Opportunity to work on a lot of different projects
Cons
Suppression of Overhead
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