Originally Posted by Steverin06

Thank you for passing this info! I am also a fighter bro with near identical hours when my app goes live shortly.

What was your availability date? Was there any available interview dates before two months out? My DOS is 1 May.

Originally Posted by TED74

plen·ty
/ˈplen(t)ē/

a large or sufficient amount or quantity; more than enough.


...I tend to disagree that we have plenty. And I don't trust our hiring boards to consistently make the right call. They tell you they want to hire you if you've made it that far, but I know of so many poor choices - particularly rejections - that I don't believe it. Anyone who thinks they can tease out problematic candidates in a 30 minute chat around a table after that persons' body of work has earned an interview (particularly at the rate at which they reject candidates) is a bit overconfident in their own abilities.

Originally Posted by Redtails4U

So, I just finished my Delta interview at Atlanta and wanted to pass on what I experienced. I am a 40-50 year old African American Pilot with 25 plus years in the Service. BS with advance studies degree, 10,000+FW hours, 2200+Turb, 6000 +PIC, 7+ years Vol work, 1 Check ride downer 5 years pasted. No other issues.
The interview begins with the Basic, you're all great, relax and all we want to do is get to know you speech from Management. I did use Cage and an Application Prep/Review.
You will be taken to a small room (5x8) where you will wear a mask. The interviewers will introduce themselves (Two Captains and one HR) HR will tell you to, “Very, Very, Very briefly” tell us about yourself, this is where the fun begins. During my intro, I noticed one Captain looking at the floor the other looking at the wall and the HR person looking at me like I just boiled out of a test tube, all with dead pan faces During my intro I mentioned how when I was young, delivering Newspapers, I would pass an airport and watch airplanes. At the conclusion of my 2 min intro the only question came from HR as to why I did not list the Delivery of Newspapers on my Application under employment. I apologized and stated that it was over 38 years ago, and I did not realize the relevances. One of the Captains then showed me on the applications how it states “All employment”, and then asked if I understood the meaning of the word, “ALL”. Next came the questions on the log books which centered on training and flights from 25-30 years ago and a brief touch on my current position. (Why is this flight only 0.7, why did this flight take you 1.9 when the distance is only 100NM, at your current position why did you fly as PIC every other flight for these weeks and on this week you flew every other day. ect….) I explained as best I could remember, and many of my explanations were met with skepticism. This took about 30/40 mins. Then came the three TMAT questions. All were Negative based, When did you fail as a leader, When did you make a mistake and had to be corrected, How would you handle flying with someone who just does not like you.

In my opinion the interview was confrontational, leading to adversarial and ended with a general interrogation feel. In my opinion, Delta cared nothing about any positive elements and instead set a goal to find a chink in the armor, drill deep into the hole like a tick and hope to drag you in. I was unable to ask the other 15 or so non-minority applicants what they had experienced, as i was told within 30 mins that I did not meet the matrix and could reapply in 6 months.
This was my first interview with a Major and I write this because with all the prep and research the general tone of the interview/interrogation did catch me by surprise, and I believe contributed to the negative results.

Good luck to all and in the words of Mike Tyson, “ Everyone has a plan until you get punched in the mouth”

Stay strong,
Snowman

Originally Posted by TED74

This is a fundamental problem with our process. We hire folks who interview "well", despite the low correlation I suspect it must have with how one operates as a First Officer or Captain.

Originally Posted by Antoine137

For indoc, I know people have stated it is positive space to go home on the weekend. Roughly how many people stick around vs going home? Does any one stay? Any advantages to sticking around that weekend? Excited to start! Thanks.

Originally Posted by Antoine137

For indoc, I know people have stated it is positive space to go home on the weekend. Roughly how many people stick around vs going home? Does any one stay? Any advantages to sticking around that weekend? Excited to start! Thanks.

Originally Posted by Kevo2012

After getting the invite to interview I have elected to convert my spreadsheet logbook to Log 10 Pro. I'm finding I have some very minor hour differences (less than 5 hours on just a couple of flight times) and some time I didn't know I had. Has anyone run into this before and had to explain it in the interview? I have checked and cross-checked all of my 4500 hours of flight time as best as I can. I'm just hoping the fact it may be slightly off doesn't turn into a grilling session. I think it is mostly due to rounding. Looking forward to the interview! I'm hoping these don't constitute "significant changes". The only significant change that will be happening is I'll have upgraded to Captain at my current regional when I go to the interview.

Originally Posted by FangsF15

I can’t give you a definitive answer, but in general I don’t think that’s a significant change. If anything, go with the lower number, which at 4500 hours is meaningless. That would be easy to explain in the interview if it even came up.

More recent interviewees can weigh in, but I believe you can update your app until 48 hours prior to the interview, at which point you should leave it as is. Good luck.