CN reviews

Weird hours No way to plan anything out So when you go through training they send you to Winnipeg for 7 weeks. It's not to bad, decent hotel and they give you 3 meals a day which aren't the best but do the trick. You get paid horribly for 6 months ( the recruiter will tell you it's only while your in school but it's actually 5-6 months till you qualify) it's 900$ a weeks. Just be prepared for the horrible shifts/ hours you'll work if your in a big terminal like Edmonton of Winnipeg. If you hire onto places like jasper or Roma junction you'll have lots of road trips instead of yard. They day rate once you qualify is 310$ a day. CN matches your pension up to 6% of your pay. And if you put in 35 years they give you about 65,000$ a year for pension.

One of those HR departments that do not "walk-the-talk". HR and training strategies (if they exist) are driven by operations instead of HR professionals. No proactive thinking, only reactive. Lack of ethics: it is well known that HR reporting to the "higher ups" does not always contain "adequate" information (read; made up figures). a few employee have been "layed-off" when protesting. A good exception to that is compensation and benefits. Workload is high (putting out fires). Over the last few years many experienced and competent HR people left or got fired and are replaced by inexperienced "puppets". This is partially caused by SR. HR management nepotism and individuals who care more about their own career then actually working for the sake of the employees and shareholders. So "puppets" are easy to handle. Career advancement is low unless you play the "political" game (or wear short skirts). I recommend new employees to stay for a few years; enough to boost up their CV and find employment in a more professional HR environment elsewhere.