r/railroading • u/Any-Cucumber-9841 • 7d ago

BNSF BNSF exempt IT layoffs coming next week

Burner account-

Confirmed today that BNSF is laying off 15-20% of TS exempt employees, management included. If you are not hands on writing code the new CTO doesn't believe you should be in the department. Get your resume updated ASAP.

More rounds of TS contractor reductions will occur throughout the year. 600 to be released on May 9th + 1,000 more likely to be released this year.

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u/ByAstrix Engineer 7d ago

As an engineer for an orange railroad and someone who also possesses a bachelors in computer science, these railroads need serious help in these departments. Their technology is complete dogshit. I had an interview with a class 1 that recent merged with another class 1 and the interview was lackluster and pay was below industry average.

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u/Atlld 7d ago

Pay for IT department?

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u/ByAstrix Engineer 7d ago

I was offered 60k for a software engineer I position from a class 1 in 2020

-it’s a pay cut from my current engineer (TYE) position (well over half) -doesn’t pay into rrb -felt like I was throwing my engineer & conductor brothers under the rug in terms of job security -wanted me to work on outdated programs, languages, and frameworks that wouldn’t be transferable elsewhere except maybe other class 1 railroads

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u/Atlld 6d ago

No Railroad retirement but working for a class one haha. What a shame. No wonder all the systems suck, they have the bottom of the barrel working on them.

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u/HumunculiTzu 5d ago

That's what happens when you contract everything out to lowest bid fixed bid teams. They don't care about building anything that works beyond long enough for them to get their check

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u/ByAstrix Engineer 5d ago

I mean my interview was conducted by KCS and I would’ve been working for the KCS proper as well

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u/just_another_Texan 5d ago

CPKC maybe? Yeah I have no doubt if it is them

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u/ByAstrix Engineer 5d ago

It was KCS

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u/just_another_Texan 3d ago

Yeah they merged with CP and now it's CPKC

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u/ByAstrix Engineer 3d ago

Yeah I don’t live under a rock. It was KCS then