Jacobs Reviews

This is not a graduate programme. There is minimal/no investment in graduates. Everything is hinged on being billable and there seems to be no budget for external graduate training or events. Even the graduate event is held at the end of your GDP, and is held during a weekend, so you will have to use your time and hours which you can't claim back if you want to attend, all for the purpose of minimising unbillable hours. Even the GDP competency matrix which you have to complete and right reports on has to be done in your own time, because even though you joined a graduate development programme, any work you do towards completing, it will be unbillable, for which there is no code for you to book to on your time sheet, thus you are simply told that this must be done in your own time. Even the travel time to attend training events as part of your GDP cannot be claimed back, regardless of how far away from your home you had to travel to attend the mandatory training session. This company is very cheap and is not like any other graduate programmes that companies offer, you are simply equal to an intern. All training is 'on the job', where you have to pick stuff up from others in the team, which is not ideal as most people are usually very busy, so they have limited time to properly teach you or explain it to you. You just come into work and work. No graduate events, no external training, no investment into graduates at all, unlike the majority of graduate programmes out there. Please stay clear because you will be utterly disappointed when you realise how cheap this company can be, and how much they do not invest in their own people. This has to be one of the worst graduate programmes there is out there. No wonder they have such a poor retention rate of grads as well as consultants and seniors.

Risk averse and not very intelligent senior leadership focuses on billability and avoiding normal professional engineering responsibilities, selling bodies rather than capabilities. No clue in strategy - they think an unrealistic set of Goals without a resourced capability development plan will deliver growth. Bullying leadership culture