Great job stability but limited promotion opportunities - Principal Engineer Amtrak Employee Review

Medical benefits & railroad retirement. Although these can be “con(s)” for single people.

No 401K matching for the majority of their employees. Company Stock: N/A People say it is hard to get in, specially if you don’t know anybody from within. Don’t let that discourage you. There were 6 of us in my class. 3(1 had a relative from within) with prior railroad experiences and the other 3 without any RR xp.

Great friends and Travel with plenty to see

The culture is horrible it’s a very demeaning please. They will fire you for anything. Harassment amongst employees and by management to their employees Is extremely high. I have a MBA degree and I still can not move above the customer service level. I’m a union member and you have to pay union dues to work a non management position. The union Reps work for Amtrak to so there is a conflict of interest. The union is TCU in which they defend the company 100x harder than they do their members. TCU is not organized very well. The pay is fairly well but after union dues in medical and taxes are withdrawn your net income makes it look like you are making at least 15 to 17 an hr. As far as Work culture at Amtrak it is fueled by many rumors and those rumors are more affluent then your resume .