Corporate Checklists Over People. A Place for Survival, Not Growth
Pros
Lot of the tech has started to get really modernized. I mean its plagued by horrible design choices from architects that have only ever worked as web devs all their lives at Union Pacific, so everything still works like its the 80s, but hey the tech stack is modern and we use the industry standard stuff.
Cons
You have to live in Omaha, and there's 0 chance of remote any time in the near future. They're trying to do full RTO, and they HATE that they have to offer hybrid to software devs in order to keep people. In general, Omaha pay is pretty poor when you look at housing costs and student loans, but even by Omaha standards its just not even remotely a competitive rate, and Rail road retirement just means you pay an extra 4.5% tax for slightly better social security when you retire... There's 0 competency from the technical support team so if even if its the most mundane possible task, if technical support is required with any of your systems, even if its just remotely related, well I promise youll be called be called to support it, rain or shine, day or night... Tech is viewed as a cost and only ever a cost. they dont like spending money on maintaining our systems but will blow fuses when we refuse to fix things since they cut the maintenance budgets... If you build a system that saves them 1 million, well it only does that once. next year you didnt save them anything and youre a leach. Management has made all to clear to us that we are expensive, and as soon as their bad decisions lead to their losses, its us that has to prove they need us.
