NJ TRANSIT reviews

3.7

58% would recommend to a friend

(354 total reviews)

Kris Kolluri, Esq.

71% approve of CEO

57% positive business outlook

NJ TRANSIT has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 354 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The NJ TRANSIT employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Transportation & Logistics industry (3.5 stars).

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354 reviews
4.0
Oct 3, 2025

Great Company

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great Benefits Pay and work life balance

Cons

Toxic workplace and lots of Favoritism

1.0
Jun 28, 2025

Poor and Toxic Workplace

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

None, benefits are ok and working in a new office space of a recently renovated $400 million plus building.

Cons

Toxic, erratic, and disorganized. Leadership is amongst the worst I’ve seen and I have worked for a number of years at this point when I arrived at transit. Did I mention professionalism? Non-existent, you have certain persons in senior leadership whom can’t even properly construct sentences together and use buzz words to sound sophisticated like if they’re conveying anything of importance. QA/QC Mechanical is not real QA and QC whatsoever, they don’t even use a change Mangement system nor do they have a way of vetting all SOPs for each department, oops I meant SMPs. Corporate seems to have a ton of unskilled professionals in management positions, I’ve witnessed it predominantly in Safety. Favoritism is evident along with personal vendettas towards employees for speaking their mind or simply stating the facts. This is a job not high school and many of the chiefs, deputy chiefs, sr directors, directors, sr managers and managers are guilty of this behavior. There is a reason why safety is a joke at this entity when you have programs that have not been modified and finalized since 2011, how embarrassing. Gossip is also something that you witness in departments like Bus where most employees cannot keep private information to themselves and start spreading rumors like wildfire. Never met so many unintelligent people in my life until I arrived at transit and needless to say, not a surprise, but depending on which part of the railroad you are in; you may face racism from colleagues who’ll make comments about plantations, picking cotton, and so forth. If you are a professional of any sorts, avoid working for transit as you will witness sexism, racism, unprofessionalism, favoritism unlike nowhere else. It’s unbelievable that leadership is offended when you do not like them, this isn’t a popularity contest, this is a job. Most former employees that have left, have received higher salaries and a morale boost.

1.0
May 20, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Guaranteed 40 hours a week pay. - Low barrier to entry.

Cons

- No work life-balance. It's tough to plan a doctor's visit because you won't know what hours you'll be working until the night before. - Split shifts. For example 4:30am to 9:16am and 3:22pm to 8:59pm (this was a real shift). Sometimes it's worse, where you finish at 10pm and start at 4:30am. - Management is hostile and rigid. - Preferential treatment given to favored employees. - They'll get your hours wrong (a lot). It's almost a part-time job checking the books to make sure they're not underpaying you. It's another battle to get them to fix it. - Signage printed through the building written by illiterate staff. This isn't to insult anyone— it's just truly shocking how poorly written and passive aggressive the signs are. I'd often send pictures to my wife and we'd laugh over it constantly. - The union sucks. Management and the union might as well be besties. - Union fees and retirement deductions combined are about 6.8% of your pay (at Ironbound bus garage at least). - Roaches everywhere. They crawl on you while you're driving.

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