Hi mcki, I went just before xmas.
Day 1 starts with a introductory to Easyjet about how well the company has performed and the staff who are assessing you will introduce themselves.
First task is the technical exam which consists of 40 questions, 20 to 30 of them will be out of the Cathay interview book but might be worded slightly different. Second task is the group excercise which can be from evacuating a village that has become flooded to making up words or letters using some tubing, each type of tube has a different cost to use while different letters has a profit value and you have to work as a group to find the most profitable letters or words that will be the most cost effective to make a profit followed by the 400 questions you have to sit through to see if you are a normal person or a nut case.
You are then split into groups one group will start to get interviewed and the other group will sit an ability test. The ability test consists of a box of cards and you have to find the missing information by looking at the other cards which contain the information and find the sequence. I was average in this test which was better than I had expected to do.
The interview can last for 40 minutes to an hour and there will be 2 or 3 people interviewing you. They will ask a little bit about yourself and then the training Captain will ask lots of technical questions which can range from the standard how does a jet engine work to describe the performance profile and each segment of the climb. Then you will be asked about times when you have encountered CRM problems and how you dealt with it and ask for examples.
At the end of it you will be given a debrief on how well or bad you went and told where you can improve, if successful you will be asked back for the second day of a sim ride which is done in the 737-300.
You will have to do 3 SIDS and improve on each one as well has some steep turns and then be asked to debrief the instructor on how well or not you think you did and where you could improve. This is done to test your learning curve and to see if you need to go on the advanced handling course prior to starting your type rating. The instructor can not give you information on how well you did, he will write a report and inform Easyjet who will then decide if they are going to offer you a position and will contact you within a few days.
Overall I did not have time to prepare for the day. I found the 2 days to be good fun and I did give a lot of banter with the Easyjet staff including during the interview itself where a lot of banter was exchanged between myself and the staff and it was a good laugh. Overall I was impressed with Easyjet and the staff were excellent very friendly and relaxed but don't let that fool you they are testing you and it is a difficult selection to get through, they did lay on food for us through lunch and the staff did mingle with everybody during lunch again this would be a test because they are getting a further idea about what type of person you are without you knowing it.
Go for it and enjoy the day, be yourself, have fun with it and what ever you do do not wear a suit or tie just a nice pair of trousers and shirt will do.
I did not think I would have a hope in hell of getting through because I'm as thick as they come but I did and got lucky with a UK basing on the 737 starting in March which is not happening very often. During my debrief I did well in the technical, avarage in the ability test, ok in the group excercise and excellent in the interview which was what I think did it for me they said they liked my attitude and sense of humour and thought I would fit in.
What are they like to fly for on the line I don't know but if they are half as good as my current airline to work for then bonus.
Good luck to you.