CSX Conductor/Engineer reviews

2.9

32% would recommend to a friend

(315 total reviews)

Joseph R. Hinrichs

34% approve of CEO

29% positive business outlook

Conductor/Engineer employees have rated CSX with 2.9 out of 5 stars, based on 315 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Conductor/Engineer professionals have an average working experience there. CSX is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Conductor/Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Transportation & Logistics industry (3.5 stars).

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315 reviews
4.0
Mar 21, 2014

CSX Freight Conductor

Recommend
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Pros

The pay and great benefits the company has to offer are good they also offer health and wellness program. This is a long term career path lots of growth opportunity with this company. The people you work with are like a family try to watch out for one another. Opportunity to travel see other places. offer a safety bonus for your first two years and a stock option for never missing work and demand day off every 90 days. 2 weeks vacation and 10 personal days after your first year.

Cons

Some of the challenges with this company is that it is a economy driven business. Its hard to keep working your first few years in some locations. So many rules that are always changing hard to keep up with. Always seem to run trains at night not the day so its hard to get use to trying to find out when to rest. Never really know when you might get called. Got to live by the phone. Good words to live by, Safety first double check everything. Never get in a hurry. Always be ready and stay ready just when you think your not going to get called your phone will ring to come to work.

2.0
Jan 30, 2014

CSX could do better.

Recommend
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Pros

The paycheck and the benefits. There is never a boring day at the railroad.

Cons

The work/life balance. The harassment and being micro managed by management.

1.0
Dec 29, 2013

Forget having a life

Recommend
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Pros

Pay is ok and work is pretty easy. Benefits are ok but you gotta pay for them all.

Cons

On call 24/7, and they will call 24/7!!! Mostly for jobs that your not even qualified to be on. You will have no life, one day off a week. A week day usually. Even if you get to the point you get good seniority as a conductor they will force you to be an engineer and lose it all starting from the bottom again. If you take a day off, they will threaten you with termination. Only way to take time off is FMLA or calling in sick. Company ignores union agreements, denies pay and claims due to you. You pay Union dues to a union that doesn't do anything for you. They will leave you in a hotel for 24 hours or more. You could be gone from home for days just to get called back as soon as you wake up and do it all over again. They force safety down your throat but on a daily basis managers tell you to violate the rules and FRA regulations. Any time anything goes wrong the company hangs you. Even when THEY tell you to do something against the rules they still find a way to blame it all on you.

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