I applied online. The process took 7 weeks. I interviewed at BNSF Railway (New York, NY) in Mar 2020
Interview
This company had the most obnoxious interviewing process I've ever gone through. It started out with a bizarre puzzle game that is required for the application and there's no explanation for how your performance will affect your hiring chances. The puzzles are things like memory games and stuff like that. You can't undo anything, you can't pause it, and you can't restart. You also have to record yourself answering interview questions and send it to them. I don't know why they don't just have a video conference interview like every other company does. Once that's over they usually fly you out to their site but since this happened for me during the COVID-19 quarantine, I was part of a Skype meeting. They seemed pleasant enough during this meeting and the interview was enjoyable. I accepted their conditional offer (conditional upon the results of a drug test, background search, etc) and that's when it got to be much more obnoxious. They required me to fill out a medical questionnaire that would not work on Firefox. No warning of this anywhere on the website. I would fill it out half way through and then it would say my results couldn't be saved and make me start over. I talked to their support, and the support person insisted I just have been trying to complete the form on a mobile phone (I wasn't) and eventually I tried it on Chromium and it worked. I understand that the website is handled by a third party company but the experience was obnoxious. Also when they call to remind you about a deadline, a robot calls you and tells you that you have "24 HOURS TO COMPLETE THIS TASK."
Worst part of all, and the reason I'm giving it 1 star? About a month before my start date, I get a call telling me that BNSF has decided it wouldn't be a "smart business move" to hire so many people when the business is suffering due to COVID-19, and that they'll be deferring the start date to January. Thanks for the heads up! Avoid.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
If you had two managers/supervisors who asked you to do two conflicting tasks, how would you handle that?
Very easy interview for a job paying 80k/yr. Simple situational questions provided by the company for HR to ask. Other than the classic "what would you do in this situation" questions, they asked if I had any traffic violations, why I want to work there, etc. The schedule is 12hr workdays both during the day and overnight, which did not align with what I was looking for,
I applied through university. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at BNSF Railway (Seattle, WA) in Jan 2025
Interview
interview was great asked a little bit about my background and some behavioral questions. They also asked scenarios about safety and what approach you would take in such situation. Also asked what I liked to do outside of work
Did HireView interview and got selected for full interview. Wasted whole day doing multiple interviews with BNSF that went very well, just for them to completely ghost me and never even respond to my emails. They claimed "You had a great interview, we will be in touch by Friday", and then never responded even after a few emails I sent. Unbelievably unprofessional.