Great People, Interesting Work, Terrible Onboarding
Great People, Interesting Work, Terrible Onboarding
The people are nice, the work is interesting, and flight benefits are always a plus. It is always neat to work around and on airplanes.
The onboarding process is run by a third party, and the setup for your first day can be a pain.
Engineering requires numerous accesses to various databases and services, but none of these are requested before you arrive. Expect several weeks of not being able to do much while waiting for managers and IT groups to approve you for access.
Speed up the onboarding process by requesting all accesses well in advance and allow the employee to arrive with a print-out list of temporary access passwords and usernames waiting for them.
Additional introduction and training systems specific to engineering processes and applications would be very helpful as well.
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American Airlines Interview Experiences
Engineering Co-Op
There were three interviewers, and each gave a brief description of their jobs and told me a little bit about themselves. Then they asked me purely behavioral questions and questions about my resume. These were simple questions, just asking me to ela
Engineering Co-Op
Asked weird questions and didn't even look at my resume. I brought extra copies as they said they would like, but they looked at it for 5 seconds. Also had the most un-personable people there interviewing me. They had no reaction or anything to what
Engineering Co-Op
I applied online for an on-campus interview. The interview itself consisted of generic behavioral and character questions and was conducted by an engineering manager and a senior engineer. Nothing too difficult or surprising, and not a single technic
Engineering Co-Op
United StatesOctober 1, 2016There were three interviewers, and each gave a brief description of their jobs and told me a little bit about themselves. Then they asked me purely behavioral questions and questions about my resume. These were simple questions, just asking me to ela
Engineering Co-Op
United StatesOctober 1, 2025Asked weird questions and didn't even look at my resume. I brought extra copies as they said they would like, but they looked at it for 5 seconds. Also had the most un-personable people there interviewing me. They had no reaction or anything to what
Engineering Co-Op
United StatesAugust 8, 2013I applied online for an on-campus interview. The interview itself consisted of generic behavioral and character questions and was conducted by an engineering manager and a senior engineer. Nothing too difficult or surprising, and not a single technic
