Friendly

Which Airline did you interview with?	Delta
How many days between invite, interview, and listed availability?	Invite 7 August, Interview 25/26 Sep, Avail November
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
Total Flight Time	2,000-3,000
Total Turbine PIC Time	>2,000
General Overview of Experience	Friendly – they want you to succeed at much as you do.
How long did you have your application in before you received an invite?	6-12 months
Did you attend a job fair?	No
Did you do anything special that triggered the interview invitation?	Friend forwarded an old resume to a Delta pilot. Received a few e-mails to verify my availability and within about another hour or so the e-mail invite showed up.
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?	No – along with civilian log book and military records, I had an excel file summary sheet including all aircraft and all different times recorded in my application.
How did you prepare for the JKT/COG portion of the interview?	Mostly RST, supplemented by EEPP.
Technical Test Questions	Like all other debriefs, limited math questions. 50%+ covered concepts from ANA; I felt pretty comfortable during practice testing so long as I could explain the why to myself for each answer. This worked pretty well for aerodynamic and math questions on the actual test. Probably the weakest part for me was some symbol recognition and what the implications were – what you can do with a displaced threshold, PAPI useable width – navigation type questions.
What was the hardest technical question or content you experienced during the job knowledge test?	Intake, compressor and diffuser increase potential energy or static energy of airflow. I remembered reading about increasing static pressure and potential energy (as applied to aircraft altitude), but not about increasing static energy. Also had a descent question asking about the distance to start a descent and rate of descent, which had an answer with correct numbers, but all available answers were in statute miles instead of nautical miles. Found it confusing.
Cog Test	RST was excellent for the COG test prep. I felt pretty comfortable and I practiced the COG about once a day. You will have plenty of time – I took a short break between each level.
Cog Math Questions	Phone call rates: $0.10 per minute for primetime and $0.07 per minute for low demand times. Adding/subtracting them. I do not remember the other couple I had.
HR Questions	HR interviewer asked me how I got to Atlanta before I even sat down and just how it went. Took it as an opportunity to lead into why Delta. Very conversational; exceptionally nice. Then explained how the face-to-face interview would be structured, and reintroduced themselves and their background. Standard 1 each HR, active CA and retired CA. Career after college in 5 minutes Why Delta Why should Delta hire you Asked about my non-flying work and how/why it would make me a better employee for Delta You are delayed for maintenance, but CA tells you to make an announcement stating you are delayed for weather Is it ever acceptable to lie to customers WWYD – Atlanta to Columbia, you get an anti-skid light Took 2 of my training failures and asked me to explain what I learned from them What got you interested in flying What is your leadership style FAs show up frazzled and late to their next flight due to a delay on their previous flight, how/what are you going to do TMAAT you had a conflict with someone
How long prior to the interview did you prepare for the HR portion of the interview?	Almost a year, but inconsistently
Which HR Prep service did you use and did it help?	Emerald Coast – very happy with the prep. The added confidence alone helps you portray yourself much more positively. Really helpful for exposure to multiple types of questions and comparing how you might handle a situation vs another pilot. I had a phone top off that went rougher than I wanted it to, but was motivating to spend more time thinking through potential questions the last few days leading up to the interview.
Any additional information you would like to add.	I could have spent more time honing HR answers, but they really want your interview to be more conversational than speaking from a memorized script.
Is their anything you wish you could have done different to prepare you for this process?	The last week leading up to the interview was really difficult to study for the testing. Of all questions, the ones I felt least prepared for where the navigation questions on the JKT. If anything, I wish I would have read through the pilot’s handbook more thoroughly

11-year C-17

One of the best interview experiences I’ve had

The entire process from application to interview went as advertised.

It was a great experience

Stay calm, drink the water, be yourself

Great experience overall from start to finish

Nothing that caught me off guard

They do a good job of trying to put you at ease

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