RailWorks reviews

3.5

52% would recommend to a friend

(101 total reviews)
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Jim Sabin

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59% positive business outlook

RailWorks has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 101 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The RailWorks employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Construction, Repair & Maintenance Services industry (3.7 stars).

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101 reviews
1.0
Aug 23, 2017

Corporate Employee

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Team Members and Regional leaders are knowledgeable, hard working, and are great to work with. They are educated, business savvy, friendly, and motivated.

Cons

Corporate Leadership is an absolute disaster. The CFO has far too much say in the operations side of the business, which hampers the COO's (and RailWork's) chances of being successful. The CEO is little more than a hatchet man. He is currently cutting everything in sight (including employees) to try and make the company's financials look better for the venture capital company that owns RailWorks. He has no communication skills, leadership aptitude, or common sense. The CFO and CEO have very little communication with people who actually make the company money, and are only concerned with bottom line numbers. Very toxic environment at the New York headquarters. No IT project management resources, no company-wide policies and procedures, no system training. The CFO and CEO need to be replaced in order for this company to be successful. I feel for the good people at RailWorks (and specifically the people at the headquarters office) who are knowledgeable, motivated, and work hard but are suppressed by their inadequate leadership.

1.0
Aug 28, 2016

Lucky You

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Good snacks in the pantry

Cons

Be thankful for being considered for the AP Mgr's position. You would've been fired by now. I think I was the unfortunate one who got the job. I was terminated after 2 months of successfully getting the AP Team on the same page, but local management didn't like that. You're not missing anything, believe me. The Directors there are as phony and ineffective as I've ever seen.

1.0
Nov 24, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

There were some great coworkers who were very supportive and genuinely nice people. You Can call or email and take off days or half days when ever you want as long as you have the days, which I don't think they really look at.

Cons

To start things seem nice, but go down hill really fast. The training they provide for entry level employees is garbage. They expect you to know everything there is in the world and produce results off the bat. When a mistake is made it is greeted with verbal threats of violence! The same occurs if you let management know of a better way to do things. It's is completely unnecessary and unacceptable in the work place. They do not create an environment where an employee can work and feel comfortable for many reasons. During my time there I must have seen at least 18 people hired and fired, keep in mind I was there for a year and a half. The revolving door is amazing. It is for this reason you get no sense of job security! You are constantly reminded by management how replaceable people are and one manager who had told me personally the joy he gets from terminating employees. Management in general is on a power trip.

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