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Aerospace
Can anyone give any insight about interviewing/working for Saudi Airlines and living in Saudi. Thank you.
If you really want to work in Middle East pick EY, EK or better go to Eva Air in Asia. If you don't care about QOL, pay, benefits then join Saudi.
You start day with a multiple choice FAA ATP test which will be one hour. 50 questions taken from Gleim's. Four to five questions will be repeated in the test.
10 reasoning and mental math questions, 20 minutes to do this test. After that interview with 3 to 4 management pilots. Starts with tell us about yourself and how you got into aviation. If you are type rated on one of their aircraft type then few questions about systems. Memory items. Then general questions such as: When do you need takeoff alternate? What is contaminated runway? Squawk codes? How many segments are there? Pitot blocked what will happen? V speeds? Induced drag/advection fog? RVSM levels and requirements? TAF/Metal questions.
2nd day you might do SIM or medical. You must do full type rating course with Saudi even if you are type rated. Which will take about 9 months! You can't go back to your home country when in training. They make big promises which will never happen in reality. Roster is big problem that is why many pilots are moving to EY, EK, QR. For every small things you need to email lots of department and wait forever to get reply.