BNSF Railway·Software Engineer

BNSF Railway Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

United StatesPosted Aug 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process started with a Codility test that was Spring Boot oriented, covering areas like caching, transactions, AOP, or streams.

After that, I had a code review with a senior engineer, then I moved into a full five-hour loop. The loop itself included two technical coding challenges, a system design interview, a hiring manager conversation, and an interview with an unrelated security person.

I made it through the full five-hour session and felt the interviews went well. Then I was denied for a reason I couldn’t get clarity on. A different recruiter asked me to complete another Codility test, and I did it quickly and passed all tests in about half the time allotted.

Despite that, I was told I didn’t meet the minimum

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