CSX Conductor/Engineer reviews

2.9

32% would recommend to a friend

(315 total reviews)

Joseph R. Hinrichs

34% approve of CEO

29% positive business outlook

Conductor/Engineer employees have rated CSX with 2.9 out of 5 stars, based on 315 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Conductor/Engineer professionals have an average working experience there. CSX is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Conductor/Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Transportation & Logistics industry (3.5 stars).

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315 reviews
1.0
Mar 3, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

For those with only limited education i.e. “High School Degree” great pay and benefits. Glassdoor wants at least twenty words for pros, so if you enjoy working outside in snow, rain, freezing temperatures, freezing rain, thunderstorms for 12 hours, this is your job. They might let you come inside due to a hurricane or tornado, just depends on if they need to knock the signal down to show the train departed the yard on time.

Cons

A Conductor has no life, do not get married, don’t have a family. You have “ No Life” except being on call 24/7. Think you get a regular day off, think again, they can work you right into your schedule off day. About 90% of the engineers you will work with are great, love to here the crew call tell me I’m working with one of them. Well the other 10% are the ones who don’t care, break the rules and can be very difficult to work with. There’s some weird old head engineers out there "Well that’s how we done it 20 years ago" Usually you will end up tolerating most engineers, but there will be a few you will hate to work with.

3.0
Mar 1, 2018

Conductor's view

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The pay and benefits for the area are good,

Cons

Long hours, a lot of time away form home, living out of a backpack

4.0
Feb 13, 2018

CSXT

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great benefits and retirement. Great group of people to work with wherever you go. It’s a fast paced job that is can be different everyday. For the most part you work with very little supervision.

Cons

I’m not a fan of being furloughed. The railroad ran so much smoother when coal was king. For some reason after the coal business was cut the railroad went down, but it is slowly coming back

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