As briefed,

Which Airline did you interview with?	Delta
How many days between invite, interview, and listed availability?
Did you receive a job offer?	Yes
If you did not receive the CJO why do you think you weren’t chosen to continue in the process?	N/A
What is your experience?	Military and 121
Total Flight Time	5,000-8,000
Total Turbine PIC Time	>2,000
General Overview of Experience	As briefed, Pilot Selection Team goes a long way to make you feel comfortable and at ease; remember, the interview starts the moment you get to the ticket desk (for those who airlined in) until you get off the plane at your destination after the interview.
How long did you have your application in before you received an invite?	12 months +
Did you attend a job fair?	No
Did you do anything special that triggered the interview invitation?	Internal Rec, 12-month “anniversary” of initial application submission.
How many internal recs did you have?	1-2
How long was it from the time of your invite to the actual interview?	4 weeks
Did you have any issues with logbooks, application or paperwork?	In a number of my employment/military entries, I put “N/A” in the salary box. Was not a big deal, but the HR person requested I put in a rough estimate of what I made (I went monthly) in each section. They also wanted me to initial in the box that spoke to my availability date. I put “two weeks”.
How did you prepare for the JKT/COG portion of the interview?	Used the 15-day prep. Fortunately I had more than 15 days to prepare, so I was able to take a day off here and there. Typically studied 3-4 hours a day, going through flashcards and taking a COG test every couple of days. Started in the 740s for score, working up to well over 800. JKT was mostly flashcards and studyguides. Big takeaway: know the CONCEPTS, not just the practice tests answers. Many questions came directly or roughly from the practice tests, but the flashcards are better to help prepare for the concepts.
Technical Test Questions	More aero, asked Cat C circling mins, continuing past the approach lights on final. Math questions pretty straightforward.
What was the hardest technical question or content you experienced during the job knowledge test?	Probably some of the aero above the flashcards and practice tests.
Cog Test	As mentioned by many, easier than the COG trainer. Use the stylus in your writing hand, with arrows in the non-dominant. Make sure you don’t touch the screen with your fingers or hand. The RST trick for the Symbol/Number (UTILXO) worked like a champ; keep repeating it (the answer key stays on the screen during the initial test section). The backwards number sequence trick didn’t quite work for me, I memorized the sequence as displayed, then was able to reverse the numbers as I answered the question.
Cog Math Questions	Fairly simple; think I got through four or five. Heard of a percentage question “1300 is 65% of X”…if you can break down the problem and numbers, the math is easier (1300/2=650, 650 is 65% of 1000, therefore 1300 is 65% of 2000), that kind of thing.
HR Questions	“Tell me about yourself since high school”, When I was deployed to Iraq, I had helped found a scout group of Iraqi children. The older captain asked me about my time doing that (I presume it was a sort of “community service” type of question). “What do you think was your greatest achievement and why?” “You’re a captain on a 737. You pull up to the gate, the gate agent runs in and says there was no ground service available for about 40 minutes (including baggage unloading/loading).” “Delta has internal and external customers. Who do you think are Delta’s internal customers and how would you work to help them?” “You’re an FO, just completing a trip. As you’re getting on the crew bus, you run into a buddy on his way in, who smells like he had been drinking.” “You’re an FO, and through a number of legs where there are complex STARs, the Captain is continually high and fast.” (“empathizing”). Contact ATC and see if we could get the restrictions lifted.
How long prior to the interview did you prepare for the HR portion of the interview?	I interviewed in November. Started prep around March initially, then throttled up after I got “The Email”
Which HR Prep service did you use and did it help?	ECIC. Great for building confidence and techniques. HOWEVER, the interview team doesn’t want the “canned” ECIC answers, they want to know YOUR experiences and viewpoints. Attended a webinar about five months prior to the interview, then did an additional webinar about a week out. Did my “Top-off” the day prior to departing for ATL.
Any additional information you would like to add.	We were one of the last groups to be interviewed in the old/current office configuration. That room has now been reconfigured; not even sure if “the wall” is still there. And Capt Kraby is no longer the head of the pilot selection team, but he will be a member of one of the interview HR panels. My group interviewed the week of Dec 5th. Expectation was an Indoc start date around late Feb/early March.
Is their anything you wish you could have done different to prepare you for this process?	As mentioned, study concepts more for the JKT. Practice tests and flashcards are good, but concepts are the key. I didn’t try to overdo the studying; slow and steady.
What can we do to improve our services?	Overall great prep. It might have been my internet connection (I was in Europe the week before the interview), but some of the practice tests were rather slow to advance from a question, to the answer, and so on.
Concepts not covered by RST

It was a great experience

Ride Report

The Delta Air Lines Pilot Selection Team does a great job

Met up with RST group at Ruby Tuesday the night before

Very good experience

The interview experience was incredibly relaxed

Overall outstanding experience

Did you receive a job offer? – Yes

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