Well not so long but just 3 months ago people who are really qualified all failed on the last day. They could pass through the sim and all kinds of testing, all failed on the last day either on the psychologist or the group assessment. As they don't give you any sort of feedback you never know, however there were really solid pilots among them. One group have joined the assessments with 10 people and all failed(different backgrounds, including turkish, french and dutch). Another group of 8 attended of highly qualified ones including some friends(engineers and ATC included), all failed except one, who was carrying an Australian passport and a lot of hours on a widebody airbus.
Now EK will come to a certain point, they will start hiring anyone whoever attends to the assessments regardless of their quality and experience. Besides they will never call back the pilots for rescheduling in 2 years, whom they have failed for nothing imho.
How is this fair?