Great place to work - Mechanical Engineer Amtrak Employee Review

5.0
22 Aug 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great pay, lots of benefits, huge bonuses, huge relocation pay. They care a lot about employees and offer so many relocation benefits such as covering moving costs, huge lump sum, and coordinating moving. They pay above market rate, allowing it to be competitive. Also good 401k (7% match) and railroad retirement which is comparative to a pension. Surrogacy, adoption, and good parental benefits. Lots of PTO as well. Good work life balance as well.

Cons

Things can be slow due to it being a big company.

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5.0
23 June 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Very great company to work for! Great Job Stability and good benefits.

Cons

May be difficult to move up the ladder. Promotions within aren't very common.

1.0
14 May 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great friends and Travel with plenty to see

Cons

The culture is horrible it’s a very demeaning please. They will fire you for anything. Harassment amongst employees and by management to their employees Is extremely high. I have a MBA degree and I still can not move above the customer service level. I’m a union member and you have to pay union dues to work a non management position. The union Reps work for Amtrak to so there is a conflict of interest. The union is TCU in which they defend the company 100x harder than they do their members. TCU is not organized very well. The pay is fairly well but after union dues in medical and taxes are withdrawn your net income makes it look like you are making at least 15 to 17 an hr. As far as Work culture at Amtrak it is fueled by many rumors and those rumors are more affluent then your resume .

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