CPKC reviews

2.5

24% would recommend to a friend

(1,371 total reviews)
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Keith Creel

36% approve of CEO

38% positive business outlook

CPKC has an employee rating of 2.5 out of 5 stars, based on 1,371 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The CPKC employee rating is 29% below average for employers within the Transportation & Logistics industry (3.5 stars).

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2.0
Oct 8, 2025

Constantly out to get you

Recommend
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Pros

Pay, pension and benefits at this company are great. Day-to-day coworkers are awesome (other conductors and engineers)

Cons

Management has a quota, they are required to give you a fail on something out of the 3 rule books you are supposed to have memorized. They actively hunt you like you are prey, stalk you in personal vehicles and company ones, set up red flag tests, some have even hid in bushes wearing camouflage. The demerit system makes no sense, you and a coworker could both be failed for doing the exact same thing and one of you may get a verbal warning while the other receives 10-30 demerits. You work on a 60 demerit system after that you are a fireable employee. You have to go 365 days with out receiving a single fail no matter the size to have 10 demerits removed from your record. A retired employee told me while I was in training “they’ll (the company) will rush to qualify you, then spend the rest of your career trying to fire you.” Management will actively break the safety rules and turn a blind eye to you doing the same when it benefits them and getting a “priority train” over the road but when it’s the end of the month they seem to heavily enforce the rules. The ATMs they hire usually have 0 experience working the ground and those are the guys coming up with your switch lists, the plans make zero sense and they have no clue on how the operations actually work out in the field. I could go on and on about this company and its faults.

1.0
Jan 8, 2025

Terrible

Recommend
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Pros

Literally can’t think of any pros

Cons

I had heard that the company offered a salary above average and that was the only reason I proceeded with them. That is not true in all cases specially mine. I was low balled but also told that with time and training they will increase my salary, but it never happened. Instead you are expected to work over time even on weekends and you can’t avoid it, because management will contact you outside of working hours. Many teams and departments have to be on call and they do not get compensated for. If you are on call, you can expect a call at 4AM and be expected to work until 6-7 AM to resolve the on call issue and still need to show up to the office before 9 AM. There is so much turnover due to high stress specially in IT and finance. Management does not care, in-fact some managers barely know how to manage a team or what is expected of a manager. Their finance department has the worst reputation out in the industry and I can see why. There is no training and you are required to know everything coming in. I got hired for a role that I have been performing for years in various industries but in this company it seemed impossible to even make it through the 1 year point. I stuck through for the promise of a raise which I never got. You are also monitored for how long you are sitting at your desk (it will appear in your performance review if you were away for even 5 mins one day). You are expected to have lunch at your desk, as well as will get looks if you are talking to other employees (even for work related stuff). The work culture is very toxic.

1.0
Nov 30, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

The cafeteria is the only thing I can think about

Cons

-No training, management expect you know everything and get the work done with no training and most of the instructions are outdated. -Blaming culture, no one wants to take responsibility, you can experience tons of emails back and forth but eventually you will see no progress. Not efficient at all because you won’t get anything done. -Management change their mind everyday and never communicate with you in advance. You will find no one reviews your work and on day 1 they have made the decision but change it after you completed everything several times until they say no you don’t need to do. -No growth from my standpoint. They hire you but don’t know what you are capable of, they don’t respect you and your experience. some of the tasks are just so ridiculous and wasting of my time.

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