SteamJet

Got an e-mail from SWA today saying they'd "Luv" to schedule me for an interview and they basically offered up any weekday in June. For those in the know - is it true they only have one "decision board" each month? If so, it would seem there would be no advantage to asking for an early interview date in the month. In fact, interviewing early would make the painful waiting to find out whether or not you made the cut period longer. Any thoughts?

Thanks

thestableone

oh it's painful!!!!!!!!

9999

My interview class and I were told by SWA HRO that our date in the pool was the day we interviewed IF we had the type. If you have your type, it certainly is a benefit for you the earlier you interview. It does mean you have to wait longer to hear if you were selected and like thestableone said.....it is a long, long, painful wait. The interview experience was absolutely wonderful though. Best of luck to you.

SteamJet

9999,

Can you elaborate on how SWA runs its pool? Is it like some other pools where you wait for an indefinite time or more like: get the type, get out of the pool and start working?

9999

I can't. I am sorry. I am just relaying what I was told by those who work there when I was interviewing. However, there are alot of people on this site working for SWA that could help you. 328dude comes to mind. He seems to help out quite a bit on these type of threads. You may want to PM him. Best of luck to you.

1Seat 1Engine

Your pool date is used to determine when you get a class date. The earlier your pool date, the higher your priority to get to class. They go strictly by pool date and availability date and have not historically maintained a big pool.

If you already have a type rating, your pool date is your interview date. If you don't have a type, your pool date is the day you finish your type rating.

Example: I interviewed and got hired without a type. A friend of mine who had his type interviewed after my DB but before I finished my type rating and was hired. His class date was assigned more than a month before mine, even though he interviewed two months after me.

Tarheel

Streamjet, Congrats on the interview! I'm curious to know how long it ahs been between submitting your resume and getting the invite. Do you have the type already?

SamFoxpilot

One DB a month is the norm.

I would echo the general consensus...If you have the type already, earlier interview date is better. If you don't have a type and want to wait until you hear from the DB, then it is not as big an issue. The earlier you get your type rating the better, so it's your call if you want to schedule that before you get "the call."

Be careful w/ delaying your interview date too far. I don't know the specific reasons, but a small number of candidates who interview in one month, have been pushed back to the following decision board, through no fault of their one. It seems that the People Dept isn't always able to finish up with all the interviewee packages, so they get pushed back to the next month.

I got called for an interview back in Feb, and chose a 6 Mar interview date. Had 41 days between my interview date and "the call. " I really don't know if interview dates had much to do with the delays, but if I were interviewing now, I would still lean toward an earlier date and gut out the extra couple of weeks wait. It's not that bad the first couple of weeks, since you know the DB is a ways off. Last week is the hardest--no matter how long you wait.

1Seat 1Engine

Same thing happened to me. My interview and decision board were over a month apart.

satchip

I just got the email for the interview also. I will be there the end of June. The LOI review in the april thread was really informative.

Good luck to everyone!