BNSF Railway·Software Engineer

BNSF Railway Software Engineer interview experience

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El Paso, TXPosted Apr 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After applying, I moved quickly into two early interviews—both over Zoom—because their headquarters were in Fort Worth, Texas.

The first step felt straightforward: a recruiter-style screen, then a technical conversation with the department I’d potentially join.

By that point, the themes were already clear to me. In my round with the team, they asked about what I’d been working on recently, and then I got pulled into a system-design style question. I also had a separate technical interview that leaned heavily into coding plus design: they wanted me to share my screen and write the code in an editor, then for the design side they asked me to implement using classes and run it. That design portion was genuinely hard

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