CN reviews

3.3

56% would recommend to a friend

(1,532 total reviews)
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46% approve of CEO

46% positive business outlook

CN has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 1,532 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The CN employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Transportation & Logistics industry (3.5 stars).

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3.0
Dec 13, 2015

Good if you can stand the wait

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Pay is good, guys on the ground are generally good people.

Cons

If you're not hired by now, you're probably screwed. Anyone hired past late 2013/early 2014 is basically flirting with retention (aka we don't need you, but we'll still pay you) and laid-off status (still considered an employee, but CN won't pay you anything). Until the top 500-600 employees retire due to attrition, nothing about this situation will change for a few years, so you better get busy with other jobs if you decide to stick with it.

5.0
Dec 13, 2015

locomotive engineer

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

It's all about the money. It's all I ever expect, that money every two weeks deposited in my account. I am never disappointed by the company, my co workers, or management because other than getting the money I simply don't care about anything anymore, and that's good. I never miss a day, don't talk back, I'm not even really "there". Forward, Back, Stop. That's the way they like it too, so it's working out.

Cons

I feel nothing at work except the cold in winter and a vague sense of missing something I used to have, some camaraderie, "feelings" I guess. I have accepted this dissociation from everyone I come in contact with, understanding that outside of the work environment there is something profoundly wrong with me. Unless something directly related to the work I don't even bother to make sense of what's said by train masters or conductors. I smile and nod a lot, but it's to make other people comfortable and reassured. I think I used to be human, but now - I'm something different.

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