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Good Company, Long Hours - Management Trainee Norfolk Southern Employee Review

3.0
Dec 2, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

Plenty of opportunity for growth, between others doing a half way job and 15,000 people retiring in the next 10 years makes for a good environment to get alot more responsibility quickly.

Cons

Expect to work a minimum of 6 days a week, any less and you'll not get anywhere. Union environment makes for a "us against them" workplace and can often make it difficult to get simple tasks done.

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5.0
Apr 14, 2026
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Pros

Good training provided at training center

Cons

It was 3 weeks feel like needed to be longer

3.0
Jul 1, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Depending on the team you are in, it can be very flexible, and you’ll be working with nice people.

Cons

HR needs to step in more, they are supposed to set a precedent yet it seems like the higher ups in different departments actually set the expectations. Which can be toxic, and some managers clearly don’t know how to manage teams. HR seems to be a nice and fun department, but the rest of the company has lackluster reviews. Also, stop advertising a total rewards package to new hires when you need to work over fiver years to get some benefits and due to the merger they won’t actually get that package. Just raise your base salaries.

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