BNSF Railway Employee Job Reviews in the United States

"Tough place to work if you hope to make a difference and get personal fulfillment out of your work."

"BNSF is a large company with many different departments and locations so everyone's experience will differ. One thing that seems pretty accross the board is the competing with PSR (Precision Schedule Railroading) has the entire operation running pretty lean and is causing pretty low morale."

"I recently completed an internship with BNSF Railway this past summer and I can say that I learned a lot in a very short amount of time. My position revolved around the actual train tracks and the work crews. Instead of doing traditional engineering work I did more management work such as completing invoices, pricings for tools, etc. The job requires a lot of communication in order to effectively get the job done safely."

"Great pay and benefits but hard to stay employed due to furloughs. This is not a career for everyone. You will not be home for any holidays and travel is extensive. Once hired there is a very small chance of being promoted into management."

"A great company, good benefits, and pay."

"Very good company and team to apply and learn large scale analytics projects."

"I've worked for my current employer since March and it's a really busy and challenging environment which I enjoy there is always different task and that keeps me focused and also make me think of strategies to keep operation going smoothly as intended the company has over 40,000 employees."

"I would rate this company as a amazing place to understand logistics and other forms of transportation. They really have a broad array of opportunities to make money."

"I've been with BNSF Railway since 2013. This is an awesome company to work for."

"The professionalism is mediocre and can be adjusted."

"You have no life, no birthdays, holidays, and emergencies don't matter anymore. You will have vacations, 401k, excellent retirement and benefits, and have easy days, and days that are complete hell, mainly caused by either the weather or the people you work with. Both of those make a huge difference in your work day. IT'S THE MOST DISORGANIZED COMPANY EVER, but chaos pays well. My first year I netted $72k, and this year $84k even though taking 3 months for training in which training pay sucks as I switched from track maintenance to freight conductor in June.... pay is a step-rate, and over a 5 year period will climb to 100%. Seniority is hard, and over time it gets easier, but at first it's stressful as hell. Look into where you're applying, as far as which union agreement it is, whether you hire on the BN side or the Santa Fe side. Guarantee rates of pay differ from region to region, and so do the kind of trains that are run. Remember, running the road trains, pay is made by mostly milage, so places like Arizona, California, New Mexico, etc...that run high priority stack trains that rarely get slowed down, and move at 70 mph from a to b, pay the most, differently from a place that has lots of stop and go industries and switch work that doesn't allow time to get good mileage in.....homework pays off... there's guys that make $2k a half, and there's guys that make $11k a half (every 2 weeks), all depends if you want a life or not... good luck!"

"I've worked with BNSF for over 3 yrs and am happy with my employment, good company to work for."

"Employed with the company since 2006. Very successful company and business levels are very high. Overall, a well run company, however, some departments could use a lot of housecleaning.The company pays well and likewise the benefits are good, but in some departments, the company doesn't seem to value experience and they do not place any value on helping employees to grow/develop and advance."

"I have worked at BNSF Railway for more than two years. BNSF is a great place to work at. It is a company that truly cares about its employees."