My interview experience
Hello everyone,
Here is the resume of my 5 days in Doha for the Qatar airways assessment, hoping to help those interested.
Arriving at Doha,all it is well organized. Basically you go where they are waiting for you and they do all the burocracy then they take you to collect your bag and to the hotel. First day in Doha was off.. So that you can rest and prepare for tHe next day. I used this day to study and prepare all the papers.
Second day.
Pick up at 7.30 am, it took less than 20 min to get to the offices. All take place there, ground floor, I was expecting a huge skyscraper but at least the recruitment take place in two small rooms just passed the reception...
First , company introduction made with a PowerPoint presentation by a hr English girl plus 4 Qatar airways captains who basically collect all the documents and go somewhere else to check it.
After the interview, a change of room and you find yourself in front of a pc doing your written exam.
Our group was made by 9 candidates, 6 captains and 3 first officer.. A mix of Boeing and Airbus drivers.
The written test is all on Atpl questions and definitions. I studied on ACE to freshen up some useless definitions and it worked.. But without studying a little bit I admit i wouldn't have passed. 50 questions in 1 hour. You are told if you pass in minutes. We lost a nice 777 captain and two first officers.
Then one at the time, on their call, you have the "chat" with two captains.. It last more or less 35-40 minutes. They are really friendly, the interview starts reviewing your documents and then they ask you to tell ,based on your experience , some situations you had while flying.. How you behaved ,how the crew, and they make questions.. CRM is very important. No technical questions.
You are told if you pass in minutes after the interview and invited to the sim for the next day. We lost other 2 guys.. Most probably for poor English.
At 13 pm you are already back in the hotel.
Third day. Simulator assessment
Usually in the late afternoon, so you have more than 24 hours between the end of the interview and the sim. I used this time to rest and prepare the sim, Qatar airways provide a good briefing package, with flight plan and charts.
As usual at the established time a car is taking all the remaing candidates to the sim centre. We were told we would have had a A320 sim, but things change pretty fast and 2 of us had to do it on a 777 sim. At this point we were just 4 captains left and 3 type raged on A320 while 1 on MD11.
i went in the A320 sim, and I was happy with it.
Simulator: short Briefing before entering and then all according to the syllabus.
- one normal take off
-one normal climb
- one ils raw data
- one eng out after take off
-one non precision approach (gnss is you got the training) or vor dme with one eng out
- one go around with one eng out
-one or two failures during the cruise or climb
That's it, no feedback during or after the sim, the examiner is silent all the way till it stops the sim and tell you that Qatar airways will write us within 3 weeks.
now I am waiting to know the result.
Captain 11000 jet hours , 6000 pic A320 with
Hope it helps.
Best luck to all of you