Mike,
i'm currently cabin crew for baby at EMA, in answer to you questions:
Interviews are very similar to other airlines, the current format is as follows:
firstly you hear a couple of talks, one about the company and another showing you a typical day in the life of a baby c/c
then you do a quick ice breaker exercise
then follows the building a bridge out of paper and paperclips exercise
after that you have a discussion exercise followed by some role plays
then finally you do a quick maths test (currency exchange e.t.c) and thats it for the morning
no other tests are done.
then if successful from the morning you get a 2 to 1 interview.
rosters can and do vary; currently fairly quiet cos its winter but summer starts soon so will be busier.
typical day is 4 sectors. can be a GLA/AGP or AMS/PRG or other similar earlies starting at 6am ish and finishing around 4-5 ish
currently on lates its AMS/GLA starting at 3ish finishing about 10-11ish.
also BFS, earlier GLA and EDI are all 2 sectors so you start about 3ish and finish about 8-9ish.
but i guess in summer it'll probably change to all 4 sector lates.
all crew at EMA that have been there more than 6months are on a 6 days on 3 days off roster, usually 3 earlies and 3 lates.
no trips at all but the occassional night stop when need at other bases, CWL,MAN, MME
standbys seem to be random, think the most i've ever had is 3/4 in your 6 days on (but that was when we lost the aircraft for winter cos it went to bhx startup, and we were well over crewed), at the mo its usually 1/2 in 6 days on.
during the summer it can be really hard work especially if you end up working every one of your 6 days. but its all worthwhile i feel and the crew at EMA are a great bunch to work with.
hope thats alright for you if you need to know any more LMK, either here or PM me.
regards
Flyer
p.s. PM me for info about the wages e.t.c i dont want to go into detail here