BNSF Railway Environment Employee Reviews | Comparably
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EMPLOYEE
PARTICIPANTS
378
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RATINGS
3530

BNSF Railway Environment Employee Reviews

What is most positive about the culture and environment at your company?

Vision and values is effective

The heritage that goes back 170 years and the fact that what we do matters. Communities depend upon us.

I really dint think there is the culture has gone diwn hill in the last few years. Weve been without a contract for 3 years

Not much, leadership has killed anything positive

Safety safety,Don't take time off.Shareholders are upset at record profits.

Work safe get the job done safe

People will offer to push me out out the train

Strong culture committed to safety, results and development.

The paychecks don’t bounce,For the most part t

Coworker relationships and satisfaction of quality and safe work.

Review from Operations Dept

My coworkers. In these tough times our team works well together. In spite of the company’s blind eye to the employees safety in

Review from Operations Dept

They try to keep us safe

Review from Engineering Dept

They want you to be safe and don't care how long a task will take as long as you can do it safely

Review from Operations Dept

I love that they really focus on health and offer so many incentives for being healthier.

The majority of the people are friendly and work safely.

Review from Engineering Dept

What needs to change to make the company culture better?

Direct expectations across the board for all workers on all levels!

Focus on appreciating the workers

Everything need to change and quickly

Settle a good contract for the employees. Take care of the employees as they are getting hard to find and train. Care for the locomotives as they move the things that make your profit. Safety needs to be reinstated

Leadership, leadership, leadership. Have more qualified leadership

Stop flipping my sleep cycle around constantly and stop busting our starts.

Review from Operations Dept

Increase wages about 30% better benefits drivecams need to go bad working conditions

Apropriate wage compensation and earned time off acrument.

Fire 90% of management and start fresh

Fire all the managment and start fresh

Completely change of the culture

Review from Operations Dept

The CEO needs to communicate better with the union members and employees before mandating strict working conditions.

Review from Operations Dept

Start running the business like a railroad and invest in your employees. This business model of infinite growth is killing the country

Company needs to listen to our concerns and not be fake resposes or blacket response to them

Pay. Management needs to respect employees. They put you on trains for 10- 18 hours. Conductors do not gat paid after 12 hours. You are in a hotel away from home for days. They do not care.

Review from Operations Dept

Treat people how you'd like to be treated.

BNSF leadership needs to actually apply the principles they espouse. Right now it's just lip service.

Review from Engineering Dept

Quit beung greedy spread the wealth

They need to appreciate labor

more time at home from work

Review Sentiment at BNSF Railway

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About BNSF Railway's Environment

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48/100

Where This Score Ranks BNSF Railway's Environment

BOTTOM
5%

In the Bottom 5% of 1188 similar size companies on Comparably

BOTTOM
5%

In the Bottom 5% of 107 companies in Dallas

3rd

3rd place versus 5 competitors rated on Comparably

The environment at BNSF Railway is considered positive by 31% of employees and regarded as having a “moderate” work pace by 45 employees. Relative to its competitors, Amtrak, Genesee & Wyoming, Union Pacific Railroad, Kansas City Southern, and Canadian Pacific Railway Limited, BNSF Railway's environment score ranks in 3rd place. This also puts them in the Bottom 5% of 1188 similar sized companies (10,000+ Employees) on Comparably and Bottom 5% of 107 companies in Dallas.

Rate Environment the Highest

  • Experience - 3 to 6 Years
    +15%
  • Department - Engineering
    +10%
  • Gender - Female
    +10%

Rate Environment the Lowest

  • Ethnicity - Hispanic or Latino
    -12%
  • Experience - 6 to 10 Years
    -11%
  • Experience - 1 to 3 Years
    -10%

How BNSF Railway's Environment Score is Calculated

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Results from 146 Employees in All Departments, All Genders, All Ethnicities and All Yrs. Experience Experience

AnswerPercent
7 or less4%
831%
1019%
1223%
More than 1223%
On average, how many hours do you work a day?
AnswerPercent
Extremely fast15%
Comfortably fast25%
Moderate31%
A bit slow11%
Bureaucratic18%
What's the work pace at your company?
AnswerPercent
Positive31%
Negative69%
Is your work environment positive or negative?
AnswerPercent
Yes57%
No43%
Does someone you work with closely, make you want to quit your job?
AnswerPercent
Yes78%
No22%
Do you have a close friend at work?
AnswerPercent
5% or Less0%
5-10%25%
10-25%13%
25-50%13%
50%+49%
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