"Love the pay and benefits are impeccable" (in 102 reviews)
"The Benefits and retirement is good" (in 57 reviews)
"A quality work-life balance requires" (in 84 reviews)
"On call 24/7, can't plan nothing out" (in 65 reviews)
I have been working at Union Pacific full-time for more than 20 years
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.
I worked at Union Pacific full-time for more than a year
Pros
Pay, benefits, and fellow employees are great
Cons
Unstable job because of major changes.
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I have been working at Union Pacific full-time for more than 4 years
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
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I worked at Union Pacific full-time for more than a year
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.
I have been working at Union Pacific full-time for more than 9 years
Pros
Great experience in a highly specialized field
Cons
At times long hours and hectic work schedule
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I worked at Union Pacific for more than 6 years
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.
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I have been working at Union Pacific for more than 4 years
Pros
Decent pay and benefits, great coworkers, fun work, feel proud to work on the railroad
Cons
You can only get promoted based on who and not what you know, union is useless, horrible work/life balance, unorganized leadership, waste time trying to "coach/write-up" employees on how to do their job instead of helping them succeed
Advice to Management
Stop hiring college kids who know nothing about the railroad and what it takes to manage craftsmen, start firing useless people that drag the morale down, promote competent workers and not people who are connected, stop trying to make the company better by only looking at profits and what shareholders want, why cut jobs and let go of talented workers when the company has been hitting record profits?
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I have been working at Union Pacific full-time for more than 9 years
Pros
Learn about and impact the economy, decent pay
Cons
Corporate, too many layers, no autonomy, changing environment lacks loyalty to employees
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I worked at Union Pacific for more than 20 years
Pros
Benefits, pay, good people, good experience
Cons
CEO has no clue on running this business. A puppet.
Advice to Management
Need new CEO
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I worked at Union Pacific full-time for more than 20 years
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.
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