I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at United Airlines (Houston, TX) in Jun 2012
Interview
United contacted me via email and gave me a phone number to call to set up interview day. At first I thought it was a scam. The email looks very unofficial. I called in several times to a busy line, and just had to keep calling. When I finally made it to a person, they were very nice. I signed up for a Saturday, and they even provided a plane ticket to and from the interview. They first have a presentation with an overview. Then they call the candidates back for one on one interviews. They score your resume and ask typical interview questions and score your responses. If they like you, they will invite you to another round. I made it to the second interview, but no further. They are very tricky. There is two one on one interviews, then a panel interview. If they tell you they will call you in a few days, that means you did not get the job. They will let you know that day if they are offering you the position. They do ask a lot of "negative" questions. I think that this is where I went wrong in my interview. When asked about what I dislike the most about my current job, I answered honestly. I have a desk job, and I would rather be doing something less repetitive. Apparently she feels that being a flight attendant is repetitive. I disagree, but I suppose she would know better than me. My advice is to prepare in advance how to handle negative questions especially. On what you don't like about your job, people, situations. As much as it pains me to say this, I also would not be too honest in your answers if you really want the job. I talked to some girls that made it through, and they said they answered a lot of the questions dishonestly.
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?
Its a multi-step interview process. First a resume submission and a questionnaire, then a pre-recorded interview with a few questions. I was asked this during the pre-recorded interview. Waiting for my live virtual interview!
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?