BNSF Railway·Software Engineer

BNSF Railway Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

United StatesPosted Jan 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I got an early email about a coding challenge with a short window, and it was particularly impersonal.

There wasn’t even a named recruiter on the note—just a generic contact address. I tried to reach out and got a vague promise that someone would respond in a few days, so I went ahead and attempted the challenge myself.

What surprised me was that the problems didn’t match the usual “leetcode-style” expectations people associate with these platforms. One task was framed more like writing a mock in pytest, which I couldn’t just do from memory without preparation. Another challenge felt extremely specific to Spring annotations like transactional behavior and caching details, down to things that

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