US Airways Yield/Pricing Interview

Interviewed Apr 2011 in Phoenix, AZ (took 2 months)

Seriously, US Airways interview process was by far the worst that I have seen. I was initially contacted by a manager telling me that he will call me over the phone on a certain day without actually giving me a time. I waited all day, just for him to tell me that he will call me on another day, again without giving me a particular time. The phone interview was basically behavioral with some basic math questions.

After nearly one and a half months, I got a call to visit them on site. They called this the all day interview, where i was expected to fly in and fly out the same day. I told them that it takes me 3 hours to get to the nearest airport from which they fly and they simply didnt care. I had to leave at 4 in the morning spending 150 bucks which was not reimbursed, catch a flight to phoenix to reach the interview 2 mins before time. Thats how well they schedule it. The HR simply doesnt care about you and the managers have no concern as well. They just will not put you up in a hotel the same night or fly you out the previous night because they need to pay extra for that. They basically dont want to spend a dime on you as a candidate while calling you over.

I reach the office and ask for the HR contact at the reception. Apparently the HR contact is not in the office and i dont have a number to reach her (because guess what, they dont give out their contact information when you fly in to meet them).

Finally the rude security guard somehow gets me to the interview room. I have 2 one on one interviews with managers. Then i have a lunch with a senior analyst who has just no idea about the job. He is supposed to be an expert on forecasting and I asked him a couple of forecasting questions just to start a conversation (something about exponential smoothing which is the industry standard). The guy hasnt ever heard of exponential smoothing. Then i hear he was a high school math teacher working as a Senior Analyst in Pricing. He seems disgruntled.

Once the lunch was done, he took me back for what they call the "skills test". I am a graduate student from a reputed university and these people want to test skills such as 105445/5 = ? (without a calculator ofcourse). I mean, seriously what am I, in 6th grade?

Once the skills test is done, they have another interview and then send you the hell out.

My recommendation, DONT Apply to USAirways. The people who surround the office are either disgruntled or just not qualified to be there. If they treat their interview candidates like this, I can only imagine how they treat their employees. my advice, STAY THE HELL AWAY! First dont apply. If you make the mistake of applying, do not go for the interview to save your time, effort and money.