I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Alaska Airlines (Anchorage, AK) in Jan 2024
Interview
Applied online. Got an invitation by talent acquisitions to a hiring event at a local hotel conference room. Managers, ramp agent trainers, and talent acquisition employee gave a 30 minute presentation. Afterwards, managers called on candidates for a 1 on 1 interview in another room. While waiting to be called up, candidates can ask questions and chat with the ramp agent trainers. During the interview, the manager will ask questions from a paper and will not have your resume in hand, so prepare to bring it since I did not. Once the roughly 5-10 minute interview is over, they will send you back to the conference room where you will wait to be called up by the talent acquisition employee and be provided with the result whether or not you’re offered the position. If you accept the offer, then youll be sent into another room to fill out pre-employment paperwork, get an employee ID picture taken, have fingerprints taken, and complete an oral swab drug test by an HR employee. Altogether, the hiring event and pre-employment process lasted approximately 4 hours.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Alaska Airlines (Anchorage, AK) in Mar 2022
Interview
Was a hiring event. They were not terribly friendly upon arrival, nor were they communicative. They had technical issues that were never resolved so their presentation was not great. The whole process seemed to take a while. During the one on one interview, they had my resume but clearly didn't care what was on it, but the questions were pretty standard, mostly.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Explain a time you had to deliver a difficult message, what was it, how did you handle it, what were the results?
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Alaska Airlines (Fairbanks, AK) in Jul 2017
Interview
First, I was given a phone interview during which they asked me basic questions like WHY I wanted to work for them, what my skills were, and what I would expect to do at this position. So research exactly what your job duties will be before the interview! On the phone, they were frank that the in-person interview would be "competency based style," where they will ask about specific instances in which you used a skill or behaved a certain way ("name a time when you went above and beyond...", "give an example when you handled a difficult situation with a customer...").
The face-to-face interview required professional business attire. As a female I wore slacks and a blazer and fit right in. The two interviewers did adhere to the competency based interview, so I had prepared answers that recalled specific situations.
Lastly, I did feel almost "baited" when they started talking to me about all the travel benefits. They initiated a conversation about how great it is to travel and asked me if I was excited for the benefits, and went into detail about the requirements of flying on standby and their specific vacations etc, so by the time we wrapped that up I feel like I gave an impression of "being there for the benefits," though I wasn't.
I believe they would have drug tested me had I been offered the position.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Give us an example of a time you had to work quickly under pressure. What was the outcome?