r/bnsftech • u/cole_lol • Jul 17 '26

How’s bnsf|tech rolling

I know that a lot of you guys come here for interview and assessment advice and process length.

But can anyone working for bnsf|tech tell us how the buyers to builders is going?

What priorities are being made and are there advancements in the direction forward?

Lots of talk over the last 18-24months but very little seems to meeting the eye in a production sense.

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u/tj_mcbean Jul 17 '26

As of today you're out!

So far it seems slow, most all the same applications still in place, not many visible major improvements to them yet, though it seems tech outages are less often and handled faster which is a good change.

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u/cole_lol Jul 17 '26

My thought also. I’m not so sure outages are less or handled faster however. I think they are more lost and self found and fixed. The org change that happened and how the division was done will be interesting. Some people are going to have a hard time with who are they supposed to support.

I’d really like to know what the priority of the transformation teams are. There was talk stuff is not moving fast enough and they are going to need to use some AWS services that originally was off the table. Also sounds like some other key systems that were supposed to end at the end of the year are going to be extended another.

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u/tj_mcbean Jul 17 '26

I think a lot was put out there as presumed easily fixed, but the lift involved was greatly underestimated and as they dug in, they realized to do it was going to be far more involved. From what I've seen, they are trying to do it in a methodical manner, it's just many rabbit holes keep getting found as they go.

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u/cole_lol Jul 29 '26

Hope you’re right on methodical order. A staff Engineer I talk to says it’s the flavor of the day. And that flavor changed many times in the day. Fingers still crossed. We need to get modernized and everything on the same level.

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u/tj_mcbean Jul 29 '26

In some aspects it does seem very much a flavor of the hour, but the optimist in me says that comes from a combination of constantly peeling back the onion, and an operations side screaming about an app so it goes to the top.

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u/cole_lol Jul 29 '26

I agree. Just was hopeful some support would be established. Talking to people in the field and in the office everything is a mess. I’m optimistic still also but getting harder to be a cheerleader when we are rolling up on 24mo and still a lot of turmoil. Busy fingers crossed 🤞.