Vantaggi
I'm a former CH2M employee, and I have great memories of my time there. When Jacobs acquired us, I did my best to wait and see what would happen and how I would feel about the company. The pro of the acquisition is that Jacobs paid long-time CH2M employees and retirees well for their stock.
Svantaggi
--We went from having a woman CEO who cared about diversity to nearly all-male leadership. --There is/was no communication about what is happening. People are anxious, demoralized, and unhappy. --Some of the people put into very high-level positions are horrible leaders. Dysfunctional, dictatorial, and uncollaborative. They are not creating a positive, fun workplace at all. --In recent years, the things CH2M HILl cared about in the past--sustainability, diversity, positive morale, creating a fun and motivating workplace--were dumped because of poor management and lack of investment in these values. Jacobs supposedly acquired CH2M because they thought we were a culture fit, but I've seen no genuine investment in these attributes...in fact, they are being further eroded. --CH2M had a big emphasis on "selling the company store." Jacobs, being so big, is like 3-4 smaller companies. The silos are hard and impenetrable. It is not one company--instead it's 3 separate companies, and everyone does their own thing.