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Norfolk Southern

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where career growth goes to die - Senior Technology Engineer Norfolk Southern Employee Review

1.0
May 19, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The company will probably be around forever, at least until teleporters are invented. Someone always needs something shipped and rail is pretty cheap.

Cons

Your salary after your first couple of years will never grow to match CPI or interest rates. This is a trick to make new hires think good raises are standard. The company view on training technical staff is that you should do it for free on your own time, it's a you problem, not a company problem. Your skills will stagnate if you stay here for long. Management is still trying to live by 60's rules, they demand company loyalty without giving any back. You will literally see layoffs to meet a projected operating ratio. Employees are an extremely mutable asset when it comes to money. Lastly and my favorite, we were forced to come back in to work and upper management is upset that we aren't using the conference rooms since they paid to have them made.

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5.0
Apr 14, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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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
CEO approval
Business Outlook

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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