TransWorks - Project Manager TransWorks (Fort Wayne) Employee Review

The company has become incredibly agile over the last few years, and there is no drama here, just cohesion between employees. Scrum is well-run here, and we have a great product owner and a good team of developers. Management does what they can for us and works with the regular employees with reasonable transparency. The company is entirely remote at this point.

Since they are owned by the railroad, they have to do whatever the railroad says. While the railroad has a good focus on IT, they are still way behind TransWorks in terms of how far they are in their Agile adoption. There is always an underlying fear that one day the railroad will close up shop because the only customers TransWorks is allowed to service at this point are other subsidiaries and the railroad itself. It could be one bad economic term and a different CEO strategy away from dissolution.

The people at TransWorks are amazing; they are all kind, fun, and for the most part very skilled and intelligent. Developer positions have massive amounts of experience to gain because of how work is distributed, this is excellent for developers just starting to enter the workplace. Benefits are significantly better than a lot of other places and the job is very secure, both of which are due to being backed by Norfolk Southern.

A common value is to do as minimal possible as fast as possible with intentions to improve it later but never happens. Training is very poor because management doesn't want to approve time to do it properly; there are several employees that are the only knowledgable source on a product because they've never been allowed to train others. Management is very secretive, manipulative, and negative; there is no delay in negative reinforcement but positive reinforcement and good employee acknowledgement is non existent.