Great pay and benefits but no life - Industrial Maintenance Technician CSX Employee Review

4.0
May 17, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Plenty of overtime. Union based pay. Easily move up inside of company. Great insurance. Tools and training provided. Safety oriented. Always learning

Cons

Can be a lot of mandatory overtime. No life work balance all work 70+ hours weekly. Paid every two weeks. Hard to get employed. To many safety rules. Management seems to cause friction between employees. Management believes they are smarter than employees that do the work and believe they are some type of royalty. 99% are complete idiots that have no understanding of operations and cause so many more problems than they help with. Their were a few good supervisors and managers but most had absolutely no business being in charge of very capable technicians. They make the work environment very hostile just to stroke their own pitful egos. Way to many supervisors and managers. One technician working while 5-8 managers watching.

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5.0
Dec 8, 2025
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Pros

- strong benefits and culture - decent pay

Cons

- everything is changing quickly with upper leadership and budget cuts leaving departments strained

3
2.0
Dec 18, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

-Under prior leadership (Joe Hinrichs), CSX was moving in a positive direction with stability and modern work practices -Historically strong bonuses (uncertain going forward) -Genuinely enjoy the application I work on -Talented and supportive coworkers -Employees clearly demonstrated high productivity while fully remote for multiple years

Cons

-Since the arrival of CEO Steve Angel, employee experience has deteriorated rapidly -Abruptly forced return to office 5 days a week with ~2 months' notice after being successfully fully remote for 5 years -Employee benefits have been steadily reduced. Discontinuation of the Well-being Reimbursement Account (WRA) and elimination of the Student Loan Repayment Program -Promotions are difficult unless you’re on teams with the right funding and executive attention -Upper management frequently makes short-sighted, cost-cutting decisions that ignore long-term impact on employees and systems -High CEO turnover pattern. Leaders come in, cut costs aggressively, then leave -Frequent layoffs and continued uncertainty about further cuts -Employees are stretched thin across many critical systems with limited backfill -Overall employee morale is low and trending downward -Hard to recommend CSX leadership to someone actively seeking stability and growth

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