Originally Posted by VoiceOfReason

For what it's worth, I recently interview at PSA and 9E and found the experiences to be night and day. PSA might as well have interviewed me in my pajamas via Facetime...they asked me about my experience and essentially did nothing more than a quick flip through my logs. They offered on the spot and were almost put off that I said I wanted to sleep on it.

9E on the other hand put me up in a hotel the night before the interview, positive space ticket both ways, and after an early start at their HQ, made me feel like a celebrity. Employees welcomed me as they came into work, they wished me luck. One guy even came up and shook my hand and said he was pulling for me. A bit strange, but classy.

The interview itself was very professional. An HR rep, a pilot in uniform, and just a smooth experience the whole morning. Was offered on the spot as well, but it felt like they genuinely wanted me to say yes instead of expecting me to say yes. Big difference.

To my peers at AW, if you want to be treated like the pro you are, give 9E a good look. With my previous 121 time and NYC flying, I should be upgrading in a less than a year. I start training in a couple weeks and can't wait to see what the next chapter has in store. Good luck to you guys!

Originally Posted by VoiceOfReason

For what it's worth, I recently interview at PSA and 9E and found the experiences to be night and day. PSA might as well have interviewed me in my pajamas via Facetime...they asked me about my experience and essentially did nothing more than a quick flip through my logs. They offered on the spot and were almost put off that I said I wanted to sleep on it.

9E on the other hand put me up in a hotel the night before the interview, positive space ticket both ways, and after an early start at their HQ, made me feel like a celebrity. Employees welcomed me as they came into work, they wished me luck. One guy even came up and shook my hand and said he was pulling for me. A bit strange, but classy.

The interview itself was very professional. An HR rep, a pilot in uniform, and just a smooth experience the whole morning. Was offered on the spot as well, but it felt like they genuinely wanted me to say yes instead of expecting me to say yes. Big difference.

To my peers at AW, if you want to be treated like the pro you are, give 9E a good look. With my previous 121 time and NYC flying, I should be upgrading in a less than a year. I start training in a couple weeks and can't wait to see what the next chapter has in store. Good luck to you guys!

Originally Posted by PSA help

If you want a full face-to-face interview at PSA, you can ask for one. I am sure they will give you one. It is at the US Air Training Facility in CLT, so not very special for you. They will positive space you to an from the interview. You will get an interview with a pilot in uniform, a rep from HR, and someone in management. They will show you around, show you one of our sims, and make you feel special.

We have more than 30 face to face interviews scheduled this week.

I think that PSA may be trying to not make you jump through hoops and wasting 2 days of your life. You are a professional pilot, and have been through all of this before. You are a qualified and current airline pilot, with a proven record.

Personally, I would rather just be offered the job over the phone and not waste 2 days of my life going to an interview. But, to each his own.

Endeavor is a good company, and I hear great things about their new negotiations. If the base works for you, it is a nobrainer. Good luck. I wish you the best.

Originally Posted by VoiceOfReason

Interesting approach. Ever seen the movie 'Up In The Air'? This whole concept reminds me of this line:

Alex Goran: He broke up with you over text message?
Ryan Bingham: That's kind of like firing someone over the Internet.

Originally Posted by prex8390

Idk, I would rather travel to an interview than conduct it over the phone or via Skype; if you're really frustrated about having to leave home and stay in a hotel a night, is being a pilot for you? It's nice to go a check out a companies operation, see some faces and what not and see the set up. To some people that can be a deal breaker; whether or be flying or just the regular outside working world. Walking in and seeing a nice building, helpful secretary, being offered a water and what not to some people is a big deal. It goes a long way in seeing what's to come. If a Company doesn't want to go out of its way to see me in person and shake my hand, what's the future hold dealing with them? Call me a entitled millennial, but it makes me feel wanted, and like a person and not just number 15 on the Skype call list for the day. It's cool to check out a company operations, see the things you probably might never see as a line pilot ever again.

Originally Posted by PSA help

I think in the case of an interview that is a formality anyways, it is more of an insult to make you go and interview.

Why waste 2 days away from your home and family for such a thing?

If NYC was a better base for you, then the decision was easy. Good luck. Endeavor is a good company.

Originally Posted by gojo

The interview goes both ways. One should be doing research on the companys they're interested in just as they are researching you. Hard to really get a feel for the company via a Skype interview