Union Pacific Reviews

Pros

Great benefits, great people, teamwork and time off is excellent

Cons

Expensive healthcare everything else is good. No complaints

Advice to Management

Keep rocking, teaching and recruitment. Best team ever.

Pros

Company compensates you well enough for as hard as they expect you to work day in and out.

Cons

Does not value a work/ home life balance

Pros

The pay is amazing once you get out of training and the job gets easier and easier as long as management isn’t standing over your shoulder.

Cons

Training is the right length but there’s very little actual hands on. What they call hands on is actually just shadowing for a month and the employees you’re shadowing rarely give you a chance to practice because they’re too worried about getting the job done. The managers give you so many tests and they vary, you break one rule or make a mistake as a new hire and you’re fired.

Advice to Management

Don’t put someone through training and run them theough the loop only to fore them for makkng a mistake anyone would make when they’re new to a job.

Pros

Great experience in a highly specialized field

Cons

At times long hours and hectic work schedule

Pros

Pay was very good with Benefits to match

Cons

They will drop you as soon as they bring you in. They do not value the employees and only view the bottom line as the defining factor.

Advice to Management

You claim to value the people you employ, however you do not prove it at all by the actions you take with what felt like annual workforce reductions, even when the company was making record income.

Pros

Learn about and impact the economy, decent pay

Cons

Corporate, too many layers, no autonomy, changing environment lacks loyalty to employees

Pros

Benefits, pay, good people, good experience

Cons

CEO has no clue on running this business. A puppet.

Advice to Management

Need new CEO

Pros

Railroad retirement is the best benefit of staying with any railroad, but this is not exclusive to Union Pacific. Processes and training are top notch if they are allowed to be used. Executives are focused on pleasing the shareholders at the detriment to the company.

Cons

The executive team is failing all employees of this company. The are focused on making the rich even richer. Record profits quarter after quarter, year after year are the only thing that matter. Why eliminate 10 people who do the work to pay for a new COO? Lance Fritz is on the verge of destroying one of the most historic companies in the country.

Advice to Management

The Board of Directors need to wake up and talk to the employees before those who are left decide to leave before due to the fear of lay-off. Being a leader is about focusing on what you do and doing it well, not becoming preoccupied with what others are doing.