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Great place to work - Software Developer Norfolk Southern Employee Review

5.0
Dec 25, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Midtown location in ATL is exciting but probably more for younger people coming out of college like myself. Pay and benefits are great. 401k contribution and pension. Working in the IT dept here is great with flex start time. WFH available. There are opportunities to move around departments. Work life balance is great, no overtime or weekend craziness, unless needed but happens rarely. Newly renovated office space is nice to be in for 8 hrs everyday. Technology is improving. Most teams are java or .net on the backend. Frontend is one of the Javascript frameworks. I enjoy coming to work everyday and my team is super!

Cons

Not much cons. I enjoy everyday here but if I have to think of a con, here goes... Management is obviously old school in their ways and thinking and a little resistant to new ideas, but that's true of humans anywhere who have done the same thing for a long time. The place is very bureaucratic with decision making and such. Different teams have different experiences, for example, another developer from another team quit after 4 months because he couldn't stand the place and said his team members were not supportive, meanwhile my team could not have been any more suppportive, so..i guess it is what you make of it.

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Thank you for sharing your experience and bringing a positive attitude to your workspace.

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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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