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Updated Mar 17, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.

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3.0

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Interviewed Mar 2012 (took 4+ weeks)

Get to know the industry knowledge is extremely important and they like it. Also has to prepare for some basic behaviour questions, dont neglect it. Second round is intense with 4*30mins and a half hour test.

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what are the difficult things you have encountered

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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and a Skills Test.

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Overall Neutral Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Oct 2011 in Dallas, TX (took a day)

It was a phone interview rather than an on campus interview. I thought that was odd especially considering the fact that this company is an airline and travel is cheap. Whatever. The phone interview consisted of questions about my background, my leadership experience, my data analysis experience, my finance experience.

I am a career switcher so I also had questions about "why finance", "why the airline industry"

There were also some short case questions.

I was a little surprised at how tough my interviewer was, considering AA's recent financial record. Most MBAs are wary of joining a company with such a poor performance.

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Why the airline industry?

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How do you see American Airlines positioned among the top airline carriers in the country?

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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.

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3.0

Average Interview

Overall Neutral Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Oct 2011 in Dallas, TX (took 4 weeks)

I got the interview through my university's career center and it consisted of a 30 minute 1:1 interview with a Senior Financial Analyst. The interview started of with basic resume questions (walk me through your resume, what was your favorite class, etc.) The next questions were about the airline industry. You really need to know a lot about the airline industry - not only American Airlines' information, but also its competitors. Just to clarify, I interviewed and no do not if I received an offer yet or not. I haven't heard back from them at this point since its only been a few days since I interviewed.

Interview Questions

Compare American Airlines with Southwest Airlines.

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What determines American Airlines' profit margin on a passenger?

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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.

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3.0

Average Interview

Overall Neutral Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Sep 2010 (took a day)

It was a phone interview in the beginning and the interviewer asked me to walk him through my revenue

Interview Questions

What finance knowledge/ skills have you used in your professional life or on projects that you learnt from business school.

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how has finance prepared you for this position.

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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.

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2.0

Easy Interview

Overall Negative Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Oct 2009 (took 2 weeks)

The interviewer seemed distracted and uninterested in conducting the interview.
I was asked a couple of case interview type questions that were pretty easy and one statistics question that was also simple.

Interview Questions

You are running a rental car unit - how do you determine whether to buy or lease a car?

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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.

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3.0

Average Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Sep 2009 in Minneapolis, MN (took a day)

The initial interview consists of behavioral and business case questions. They ask you to run down the resume and question about your summer experience. Other common questions were - why do you want to join American, why aviation industry. Behavioral questions include instances of challenging situations, team work and leadership. The interview also includes small business case questions.