"Used to be great now just OK" - Maintenance Engineer Amtrak Employee Review

3.0
Jan 27, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Railroad Retirement some great people to work within the Engineering Department. You will get great Class 1 Railroad experience here. Still great Union positions. We still have free travel for now.

Cons

Pension gone 2015, High deductible health care, low HSA contribution for large company HC has no clue most of them 95% have no Railroad experience. They love comparing a congress run passenger railroad with shareholder Fortune 500 companies from which they came from. More experienced employees(with higher salaries in salary bands) lack incentives to be more productive due to new pay for performance structure.

Explore other reviews about Amtrak

5.0
Apr 28, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Learned new technologies Worked on different domains and projects

Cons

Too much work Less time

1.0
May 14, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

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 The pay is fairly well but after union dues in medical and taxes are withdrawn your net income makes it look like you are making at least 15 to 17 an hr.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

1
See reviews by: Helpful|Rating|Date|All