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Transport for NSW reviews

3.5

62% would recommend to a friend

(663 total reviews)

Josh Murray

42% approve of CEO

43% positive business outlook

Transport for NSW has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 663 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Transport for NSW employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Government and public administration industry (3.6 stars).

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663 reviews
1.0
Aug 19, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

- Salary can be competitive for contractors, however it really is not worth it - Other than that, there really is nothing good to say about this company

Cons

- Senior management is very hostile towards employees - There is systematic employee abuse occurring at all levels of the organisation (This is really, really bad and actually a lot worse than you could ever imagine) - They literally destroy people in there - No actual work done in the place. Virtually nothing is achieved. It is hard for new employees to understand and accept that this is completely normal there. - It is generally regarded as the most toxic workplace people have ever worked in - Lies, deception, undermining and defamation are normal day to day there - Employee surveys are not genuine: there can be significant repercussions if the surveys are answered truthfully - Managerial incompetence is so bad that most of them are using 80% of their time on creating problems and blaming each other instead of doing anything even remotely useful - Billions are spent on major projects that have are not showing any results but the projects are too big to fail. The place should be shut down. Audits will never reveal the extent of the real problems and the real sources of those problems in this organisation. This place really needs a royal commission into investigating what is really happening in there. For years, all that money (billions) has been spent with the hopes of seeing some results at some point. This has been going on for years: there is a difference between optimism and insanity and this place has gone way past that point a long time ago.

1.0
May 11, 2016

Interesting projects, but poor management and toxic culture - AVOID!

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Opportunity to be part of interesting and exciting transport infrastructure projects - Flexible working arrangements with good pay for public sector role - Friendly staff, despite the less than optimal working conditions and high pressure environment

Cons

Where to begin?! - Despite a root and branch restructure in 2015 (costing millions in consulting fees and redundancies), unfortunately very little has changed; in fact the ongoing cycle of restructures and realignments is distracting and unnecessary, without driving any real change and seemingly protecting incompetent GMs and Directors; - Executive leadership dictate from on high and have little or no understanding of what is happening on the “shop floor” and the behaviours of certain senior managers, particularly in Customer Experience and Infrastructure and Services teams - Little or no trust placed in staff to deliver on projects – ongoing micro-managing and changing of goal-posts without little consideration for the customer - Little or no career progression – unless you are part of the in-crowd, including limited (if any) funding for training; - Bullying and threats from senior management unless you conform to their way of thinking; HR is useless and provides little support; - High pressure environment with often unrealistic deadlines and expectations from senior leadership, leading to rushed, ill-thought outcomes and constant, numerous presentations and documents. - Pretty depressing office environment and IT technology is poor – most staff work off outdated desktop PCs; you need to fight tooth and nail to get a laptop and even harder to get it 4G enabled to allow remote working! - Despite a dedicated internal comms team, communications between teams is still poor – with senior managers failing to communicate changes, leading to confusion and lack of clarity

1.0
Nov 20, 2016

Racist

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

People that weren't from that region were pleasant to work with during my time here.

Cons

People look after their own. If you are not Indian don't bother applying because if you get interviewed by a manager that's Indian, it would be unlikely you will be employed which is what I found as soon as I walked into this organization/workplace with 90 percent of employees are Indian. No point in working here when your knowledge & experience isn't acknowledged in anyway as a person that moves on gets replaced with an Indian. No point in sticking around as most jobs will be outsourced & insourced with foreigners taking Australian jobs. We can't afford to work for peanuts.

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