BNSF Railway Software Engineer interview experience

After that, I went through a five-hour set of interviews. The overall vibe was hard to shake—part of me felt like the role fit had already been decided before I even got fully engaged, and there were early signals like not interviewing directly with the actual team and a hiring manager who seemed disengaged.

The questions in some rounds felt mismatched to the real day-to-day work I expected for the position. During the process, the recruiter did ask standard things, but I also felt like timeline questions mattered because the recruiter went quiet once they decided they weren’t going to keep