Senior Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at BNSF Railway with 3.6 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 43% positive. To compare, the company-average is 57.6% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Senior Software Engineer roles take an average of 15 days to get hired, when considering 7 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at BNSF Railway overall takes an average of 42 days.
Common stages of the interview process at BNSF Railway as a Senior Software Engineer according to 7 Glassdoor interviews include:
Skills test: 31%
Phone interview: 25%
One on one interview: 13%
Personality test: 13%
Group panel interview: 6%
Background check: 6%
Other: 6%
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The whole process is pretty slow, 1 round phone interview then 5 rounds of virtual onsites. Background check and onboarding is a bit slow too. It takes roughly around 3 months until your first day in BNSF.
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Question 1
business related design questions, coding + design.
I interviewed at BNSF Railway (Seattle, WA) in Mar 2026
Interview
After submitting the application, I get the OA questions in 1 week. But after completing the OA questions, I have not heard any update.
As far as I have being, I only faced the 2 Online Assessment questions to finish in 70 mins.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The question is mainly about how to implement RESTful API with requests and responses, also complete the required the unit tests.
It's not algorithms questions, so should be fair enough to resolve the problems if you have related experience.
I applied through other source. I interviewed at BNSF Railway (Dallas, TX) in Feb 2026
Interview
I have completed OA and completed one round of techinical assessment my experience so far is good, I am yet to complete remaining interview rounds.
In my second round they asked about current project details and one syste design question.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They asked about my technical skills and common questions about project architecture and one system design question.