The process took 1 day. I interviewed at United Airlines (Houston, TX) in June 2012
Interview
Applied online about 8-9 months ago, got an unexpected email reply then 2 days later got an invite to call, & to make arrangements to fly to Houston. About 80 people were taken to the Continental Training Center, arrived at 8:30 AM, checked in and waited until 9AM had a brief overview, watched a short presentation film. Taken back for 1:1 interviews, was asked about 8-10 questions, I bet it didn't take 10 minutes! I was gone within one hour ! Our group on the shuttle were ALL well dressed, well spoken professionals. We (10 of us on the shuttle) were told they would get back to us within a week. Most of us were a little dismayed at the process since we had out of pocket expenses- hotel and food for the day. One man said he heard they were having another group in right after ours, which arrived at 11. Not sure what just happened? We didn't see anyone going back for 2nd interviews or staying behind. They didn't explain the process very well to begin with, and everything we read on here for United was different from what we went through today. Were we CUT? Or Will they call us back for 2nd? Who knows? Not us! I guess you can say we all feel like we're in a holding pattern!
Easy= interviews (extremely short) Difficult= Prep and travel time was costly and time consuming to only be given 10 minutes one on one.
the face to face live video interview with a HR personnel. I collected all possible questions from reddit to glassdoor and formulate my answers and thought they're going to ask the same questions but they didn't. The HR kind of tell that I have a ready made answers so she stirred the interview differently so my answer will be organic. Thankfully I passed this 30 minute interview. The interviewer did not look interested because she is multi-tasking but best believe she is listening to your answers.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Can you tell me about a co-worker you had to work with but didn't get along with?
I’m heading to the F2F interview in TX. Every step so far has not been difficult for me. I also have no prior knowledge in being a FA. The hardest part so far is probably just the nerves and anxiety. Just prep well, do some research, have some basic questions and answer prepared so that even if they ask a different question you can possibly use one of the scenarios of another question and tailor it to the new one.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about a time you made a commitment to someone that turned out to be harder than you thought?
I conducted my online assessment with questions about company policy, seating charts and customer requests with what is allowed and what isn't. I took my time with every question and reviewed it twice before submitted and now I'am invited to the virtual interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They gave you scenarios of situations and then gave you charts of company policy for food service and you had to answer helping the customer but following company policy.