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airmonkey

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Anyone have an interview horror story? Perhaps that airport meal disagreed with you and you sharted walking into the interview room. Did they pull up your Myspace page and ask you about the drunken picture with the underage girl and your membership in the "Bird Rock Bandits"? Anyone find out the event was canexed while you were enroute or even worse hosed up your entire travel arraignments? Ive heard of sponsoring airlines losing interviewers luggage and sending them home. Or the interviewer just didn't seem to like you one bit and the entire process felt like a scene from The 300 and you were the Spartans. Anything like this ever happen to anyone?
 
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No bad experiences, unless you count the SW interview I haven't been offered yet, among others!! hahaha :beer:
 
I remember talking to another pilot when I was interviewing at Comair. He flew night cargo into PHX and was telling me about how he would turn off the radio because he got tired of listening to all the chatter. He would turn it on at various points when he knew ATC would be calling. He also didn't like flying with others, liked doing it his way better. I would've loved to have been a fly on the wall at that interview.

Other than that, ACA was my worst experience. Nothing crazy, but they were very condescending to us during the interview. Three of us would interview at a time, and they would pit us against each other if someone was unsure of their answer to a technical question.

The only time they were nice to me was after I turned down my class date. Suddenly they wanted to sweet talk me into staying. Shame, back then it seemed like a great place to work.
 
No pilots showed to interview us at mesa and the pilot hiring coordinator was almost in tears because no one would interview.... And it only got worse once i got hired...
 
i interviewed at airnet to practice interviewing, i turned them down in the interview, and then asked how much longer untill my flight leaves for home. they did not like me after that i am thinking.
 
i interviewed at airnet to practice interviewing, i turned them down in the interview, and then asked how much longer untill my flight leaves for home. they did not like me after that i am thinking.


airnet is a joke in its self.

ahhhhhhahahahahahhahaaaa.....



good one!! (you said airnet)
 
Heyas,

I think just about everyone who interviewed at UAL in the 1990's has horrible story.

That was back when the confrontational interview was in vouge there.

All I can say is "wow". I thought maybe I was on Candid Camera (that's "Punk'd" to the iPod wearing, backpack slingin', hair gel oozing frosted flakes SJS'ers out there).

Nu
 
Actually a very good experience at Comair, even though I ended up turning them down. Good folks over there... but then couldn't get them to call me back once I changed my mind. That's ok, I have some other options opening up. ;) Also interviewed at Alpha Flying at MHT a while back. At the time I had 700 hours, and they wanted me to go get a bit more. (More recently they were offering my roomate's 500 hour students an interview. Funny how times change.) Very good experience with them also. Good folks there too, but I ended up declining the offer to interview again when I had 900 hours because I was leary of having a logbook full of PC-12 time (I only had about 25 multi at the time.)

-Goose
 
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At a interview with a major it was all going great until I opened my mouth and verbal diarrhea came out and I could not get myself to shut up. I think I might have even cursed at the interviewer. I believe they have put my picture on the wall with the caption "Worst Interview Ever Do Not Reinterview". Does that count?
 
How about the worst non-interview? When I was a CFI looking to get to a regional, Mesaba was the place to be. I was calling their HR guy every so often when I'd update my stuff. The day after I call and leave a message he calls me back to offer an interview. We speak for about 10 minutes about what to bring, catching the flight, getting the hotel room, etc.

He then asks if he should mail my packet to my NY address.

NY? You mean Chicago or Dallas?

No, NY, you're *my name* right?

Yeah...

You're from NY and flew in the Air Force?

No...

So he withdrew the interview offer based on me being the wrong guy with the same name.
 
Just had a simple question? How do they do your employment verifications? Do they use a company to call them? Or do they do it themselves for SWA? Is it by #ss or name? what is the procedure on that? How long does this take? Just checking..I was told around 2 weeks for that, a fingerprint and drug screen. Please let me know..Anxiously waiting
 
COEX back in the day is still the most bizarre interview i've ever been on. Very in your face, hostile, etc. First thing they said is 'welcome to the 121 world'. Under my breath i said "all for 13,000 per year". I didn't get hired.
 
Eagle. Things were fine until the second one on one and the guy asked what kind of charts my current company used. Of course, after I said NOS he handed me a bunch of really poor quality photo copies of some Jepps and started asking questions. So it kind of unraveled on me from there on out and when they said that I could leave they directed me to walk to the bus stop and wait for the next bus to the terminal.

June or July in Dallas in a suit with a suitcase. No sidewalk so I'm dragging my bag through the f'ing grass about a 1/4 mile to the bus stop where I get to stand and wait in the summer sun of Texas.

To this day it was one of the least professional things I've ever seen. They sent me a letter recently out of the blue offering an interview. It's been years since my interview experience but I'm tempted to write them a letter back explaining why I would not now nor ever consider interviewing with their company.

Had I a little more experience with airlines back then I would have asked for real charts to look at during the interview. These things looked like those old blue copies they used to make when I was in the second grade.
 

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