Railcorp Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Railcorp full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Good Conditions as a government company, including RDO's, and often flexible working conditions.
Decent pay for IT related work.
Company has direct impact on a large number of people every day

Cons – Frustration with red tape
Some staff difficult to work with
Difficult to innovate
There is no pay for performance culture - all staff on EBA get standard increases, so no ability to accelerate progression/pay beyond formal promotions
Transport can have bad reputation

Advice to Senior Management – Give more control to employee's to innovate / direct their ideas.
Make decisions quicker - too much time spent analysing decisions, many of which could have been implemented and checked for value for the time spent in decision paralysis

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Railcorp as an intern for more than a year

Pros – - Excellent pay compared to other internships. 45k/year paid pro rata (~$23/hr) with yearly increases
- Work/life/study balance. Cadets & interns capped at 38hrs/week
- Very laid back, meet great people and some very interesting characters
- Engineers are highly knowledgeable about the railways
- Everyone is very helpful
- Not much stress
- Not much office politics (as far as I can tell)

Cons – - Political agenda of currently elected government dictates operations
- Bureaucracy
- Not much incentive to perform. No bonuses for working hard, can be a bludger and make as much as a hard worker
- Difficult to make things happen. Lots of forms and signatures from everyone needed
- Very little engineering design work (very difficult to get placement as cadet/intern - even grads find it tough). Engineering work is almost all project management/construction related

Advice to Senior Management – HR needs to sort out their management of their young engineers. Left feeling forgotten with no clear professional development options.

– I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Railcorp full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – - Great pay and conditions, including travel pass
- Large company so lots of opportunities
- Really friendly colleagues
- A lot of pride

Cons – - Bureaucratic
- Current restructuring means morale is low

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Railcorp full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Some great people and projects
Plenty of career opportunities
Good pay and conditions

Cons – Lots of poor performers not managed
Some areas with poor performance culture
Due to constant government changes/reform, a lot of people are too defensive - which can even get in the way of productive work.

Advice to Senior Management – Give support to project teams
Hold poor performers to account - don't simply move them to another roster/location to keep everyone happy

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Railcorp full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Huge number of projects and great variety. People are great to work with. Most are committed to delivering quality work and will work as long as it take to get it done. High level of committment to improve in all areas of safety, quality and value for money.

Cons – Government changes without consultation. Senior management accepts what ever the next goverment hands out without question. Difficult to control the few poor performers. Still pockets of people who underperform. Senior management structure particularly at GM level is out of control and therefore overheads costs are spiralling.

Advice to Senior Management – Need to support the people who actually deliver projects directly with clerical, safety, environmental, training and HR

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Railcorp

Pros – Its a very cosy work environment and lots of fun. Good people who likes to help each other out. Alot of perks like free travel

Cons – Beauracratic sometimes. Can be a very slow paced environment where nothing gets done and it takes a long time for approvals.

Advice to Senior Management – Please add bonus and reward staff for a job well done. Less layers of management and make decisions more quicker

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Railcorp

Pros – flexible work-life balance through working hours anywhere between 6am-9am start, one-day off a month, generous remuneration, family-oriented culture, nice friendly people.

Cons – large bureaucracy too big to resolve, many stakeholders and poor communication between teams, long timeframes on processes with no sense of urgency, little financial reward for strong performance thus best to apply for higher jobs than stay in same role, poor at performance managing out poor performers, lacks strategic mindset, many complacent staff and management just don't follow them!

Former Employee – worked at Railcorp

Pros – The working hours in RailCorp is fairly flexible with manager approval.
The colleagues are friendly and willing to give a help hand.

Cons – Constant restructure within the organisation is bad for the moral.
Time taken to get thing running is longer due to type of organisation.

Advice to Senior Management – Take a serious leadership role at the upper level management level to stick to an effective organisation structure and run with it.

Current Employee – been working at Railcorp

Pros – - Work life balance
- Better salary in comparison to others in the position
- Higher super annuation
- One day off per month
- 20 days of annual leave

Cons – - Depending on the area, some areas are good however some are just dysfunctional
- Challenging career progression within the corporate side as the number of positions created do not match with the number of people recruited
- The organisation prefers to hire contractor from outside rather than promoting people from within to get a quick fix

Advice to Senior Management – - To look after their employees better in terms of career progression by offering opportunities through secondment or acting in a higher grade within the corporate side