Who you know.... - Anonymous employee Amtrak Employee Review

2.0
14 Sept 2011
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Amtrak salary is really good but you have to be willing to accept that management does not really give a crap about their employees.

Cons

The only way to obtain employment with AMTRAK is by who you know. Management promotion decisions are based on if they like you are not. It is definitely not based on your good work ethics. Working at AMTRAK is very political.

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5.0
28 Oct 2025
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Pros

Great Pay, Great work life balance, great people, great benefits, great 401K match

Cons

I suppose if you are looking to be a CEO your pay may not be the most compared to other railroads. But for front line, middle, and even upper management, the salaries are great.

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 The pay is fairly well but after union dues in medical and taxes are withdrawn your net income makes it look like you are making at least 15 to 17 an hr.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