Why can't I give a ZERO Rating? - Manager Amtrak Employee Review

1.0
Feb 16, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Truthfully there are not many pros of working at Amtrak anymore. The CEO (Anderson) and CAO (Stadler) are slowly taking all the benefits away from the employees to increase their salaries/bonuses. The people that do the real work are no longer happy and internally the place is falling apart, as executive management is working to make the company more "efficient." However, the company is no longer effective. They will take their money and leave at some point while Amtrak is going to be left in a huge mess. That is the problem with bringing executives in out of retirement...very easy to cut much needed money from the budget and disappear after the damage is done saying look what I did and blame the problems on the next CEO. Oh, did I mention executive management will leave with full pockets for sitting at home and making bad decisions.

Cons

Too many to list. The only way I would ever suggest coming to Amtrak is if you have no other options. If so, use it as a stepping stone and get out fast.

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5.0
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Pros

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

Cons

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1.0
May 14, 2026
Recommend
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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 The pay is fairly well but after union dues in medical and taxes are withdrawn your net income makes it look like you are making at least 15 to 17 an hr.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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