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      Union Pacific reviews

      2.6

      28% would recommend to a friend

      (3,063 total reviews)

      Jim Vena

      20% approve of CEO

      32% positive business outlook

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      Union Pacific has an employee rating of 2.6 out of 5 stars, based on 3,063 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Union Pacific employee rating is 26% below average for employers within the Transportation & Logistics industry (3.5 stars).

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      1.0
      Jan 12, 2025

      Don’t Do It

      Manager train operations
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Check never Bounces If you go into management you will get to move around a lot

      Cons

      Moving around a lot They treat you worse than a dog On call 24/7 always trying to get you in trouble It’s risky 5 employees were killed last year hundreds more injured I have been working here since 2097 and a manager since 2011 and I can tell you that I have a friend that’s a union equipment operator “backhoe and excavator” he made $145,000 on 4 th year after 18 years and 14 as a manager I barely made $140,000 I have engineers that work for me not managers that made $175,000 this is crazy

      1.0
      Jan 12, 2025

      Corporate Checklists Over People. A Place for Survival, Not Growth

      Project enigneer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Lot of the tech has started to get really modernized. I mean its plagued by horrible design choices from architects that have only ever worked as web devs all their lives at Union Pacific, so everything still works like its the 80s, but hey the tech stack is modern and we use the industry standard stuff.

      Cons

      You have to live in Omaha, and there's 0 chance of remote any time in the near future. They're trying to do full RTO, and they HATE that they have to offer hybrid to software devs in order to keep people. In general, Omaha pay is pretty poor when you look at housing costs and student loans, but even by Omaha standards its just not even remotely a competitive rate, and Rail road retirement just means you pay an extra 4.5% tax for slightly better social security when you retire... There's 0 competency from the technical support team so if even if its the most mundane possible task, if technical support is required with any of your systems, even if its just remotely related, well I promise youll be called be called to support it, rain or shine, day or night... Tech is viewed as a cost and only ever a cost. they dont like spending money on maintaining our systems but will blow fuses when we refuse to fix things since they cut the maintenance budgets... If you build a system that saves them 1 million, well it only does that once. next year you didnt save them anything and youre a leach. Management has made all to clear to us that we are expensive, and as soon as their bad decisions lead to their losses, its us that has to prove they need us.

      2.0
      Jan 11, 2025

      Stay Away

      Spotter
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Weekly Pay, Overtime, and being in a union

      Cons

      Long Hours, and no personal life outside of work.

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