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2.0
27 Jun 2015
Anonymous employee
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Pros

TransWorks offers good pay for the Fort Wayne area. Most of the people are good. Office location is convenient. Benefits package is decent. The biggest Nazi on the executive staff was offloaded onto a sister company a few years ago.

Cons

What do you get when you have several non-technical, ex-railroad employees running a software company? You get TransWorks. If micromanagement from the exec staff with a dash of 1950s-style authoritarian leadership is your thing, TransWorks is the place for you. Employees are asked to log their hours in no greater than 15-minute increments for the entire week. I can promise you will NEVER find a company that pays stricter attention to how employees spend every minute of every day than this one. Every single project no matter how small must be estimated and go through executive review before it can be worked on. This is a company that can't get out of its own way. Management is skeptical and distrusting of employees. When things are going well all is fine but if customers leave and times get tough you can be sure management will find a group of minions to blame it on and make their life miserable. A couple of the most well liked and respected management people left a few years ago. They played nicey-nice on their way out the door but people who knew them well said they were miserable and it was a long time coming. A previous reviewer said it best - if you are a yes man/woman, you'll be ok here. There is proof of that. If you see the flaws and try to correct anything you'll either be made miserable enough that you'll quit or they'll start an HR witch hunt so they can fire you. Or you'll be DEmoted. That's happened. Be sure to log those hours!!!!!

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5.0
7 Sept 2021
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

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.

Cons

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.

4.0
19 Sept 2014
Recommend
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Pros

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.

Cons

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.

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