Glorified Customer Service Representative - Marketing & Sales Representative (MDSC) Union Pacific Employee Review

3.0
Apr 7, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

1. Amazing people 2. Competitive pay 3. Structured career path and clearly defined hierarchy; promote within 4. Clear role expectations 5. On-site gym

Cons

1. No work/life balance 2. Many employees are terribly disengaged and checked out 3. Extremely limited flexibility 4. Limited # of women in leadership roles; 95%+ of the organization is male 5. It takes 5 years to earn 3 weeks of vacation 6. Politics and lots of game playing 7. There is no way to objectively measure performance; elements of the Performance Reviews (TPT) & ranking systems are very subjective 8. Weak leadership development program 9. Weak mid-level managers! 10. Not progressive...very OLD corporate culture that resist change 11. Tend to lose young talent

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Cons

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4.0
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Pros

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Cons

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