Frankly, I do not understand your line of qustioning Junior Pilot, was the interview a CPL vs. "just" a cadet pilot interview.
You may wish to know I had 6,500+ hours, ATP, several years Boeing 727 airline experience, Flight Safety International Falcon 20 instructor experience, certified aircraft mechanic and Flight Engineer experience, and a B. Sc. from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (+ more qualifications), when I had my SIA interviews as you refer to as "just" a cadet pilot interview.
SIA does not have direct a entry first officer program so those wishing with airline jet experience are forced to take the cadet pilot route with the training trimmed down to within just a year. However, be advised that there is no such thing as "just a cadet pilot interview". All interviews are challenging and for those with airline experience and Singapore
PR with a western passport, a most horific experience given by the most unworthy people. You must not only be very subservent but if you have not married a Singapore chinese to get your Singapore
PR and/or you may even glance at someone who does not like you, than you can expect the convient will not "fit in " permanently etched on your file.
It was my blessing not be chosen by SIA for I am far happier and richer with a major U.S. airline even though, most sadly, we have some unstable times right now and we shall overcome. I am not disgruntled that I was not chosen by SIA but at the lack of respect, maturnity, fairness and tact by the interviewing SIA management. SIA treatment of its emplyees and its safety record are a disgrace to the Republic of Singapore, I do not care for all the daily hype in The Strait Times, do not believe it. PC and other simulator checks are not truthful, often tainted grades for those undeserving and receiving them because of no other merits than race.
Ironcially, I kept in touch with whose that were chosen that infamous day 7/7/00, and the fact is all of them, all non-airline experience with and without pilot ratings, and each one is no longer a cadet, having flunked out a while ago in various phases of training.
There is no guarantee even if you get in, its an individual thing, its not easy no matter what airline or country. In the U.S. many majors have a very initial training high flunk out rate. A friend of mine failed a recurrent and lost his job with American Airlines. Another one could not get his FE flows down fast enough and failed his initial PC with United Airlines. However, not one of them feels it was ever a race issue. Why is SIA so race oriented???
However, if you are still thinking SIA then go read "Thoughts from an almost SIA Pilot" and remember SIA is of the opinion that no matter what they do, people will still want to fly for them. Somehow, I just do not feel that way.
Also, it all comes down to flying airplanes, there are people with more pressing concerns, as you should see what we are going through here in New York. Me and wife "hate" to talk about flying when I am home, its just another job, a fun one I admit, but just another job.
Think future, think food, think mortage, think marriage, think sucess, and then think about flying. That is how you get ahead in life and when you least know it someone, perhaps, will hire you to fly for them. It worked for and I would not trade it for the congressional medal of honor. All that non-flying sucess in life means that much to me.
God bless to one and all.