Originally Posted by
CincoDeMayo
Or the fact he is more concerned with "chill" and making himself feel good during the interview, versus demonstrating why the company should hire him.
That is the big difference here; interviews at this level used to be to convince the airline you were the right choice for them. Now it's pilots showing up looking for the airline to convince them they are the right airline. The tail currently wags the dog at this moment in hiring.
I mean, they guy gets an interview with multiple failures, some at the 121 level, and he expects it to be a "chill" experience? Maybe the side eye he received was the the result of the answer he gave about his failures? Clearly he screwed the pooch somewhere if he didnt get the job here, I bet we are hiring most that walk through the door for the face to face.
The 121 world made their own bed, and this is the outcome
For me at least, I’m not a low time ERU kiddie who flipped gear for a year or two in RJ or at a cut rate 135, so yeah some of the dumb ass questions like when did I first solo, or any checkride failures when it’s been well over a decade since I did a GA ride, or playing some dumb online game to judge my piloting skills because they are too lazy to read about the flying I’ve been doing, to me these seem like dumb ass questions, and yeah you need to convince me why I want to work for you, I’m not exactly hurting at my current comfy flying gig.
Quit acting like these stock ticker companies with histories of treating their people like trash are giving you a god like chance when they invite you to interview, it’s for sure as much me interviewing them as the other way, yeah act the part and play the game, but don’t actually swallow the Kool-Aid