Interview with Republic Airways

[SoCalAprch]

Originally Posted by pilot4500

I interviewed yesterday and I thought it was overall a dissapointing experience. I did not get hired. I took Wonderlic test as well as the Instrument test. I thought I did pretty well on both of them.

When they started doing the panel interviews they called me in and said that my interview was being discontinued because I did not score high enough on the Wonderlic test. It is a 50 question test and they give you 12 minutes to complete it. It is almost impossible to complete all of the questions in 12 minutes. I answered 35 questions total. They did not tell me what the minimum passing score was, or which ones I got wrong.

They suggested that I go online and try to take some practice Wonderlic tests. They then thanked me for taking the time to come to Indianapolis to interview and said that I could reapply in 6 months.

There were 7 of us that interviewed that day, and I know of at least 3 who did not score high enough on the Wonderlic test and were sent home.

The guy who went in ahead of me was an American Eagle FO, and he was also sent home because he did not do well enough on the Wonderlic test.

Republic seems like a great company to work for, but I think that sending someone home because they didn't score high enough on a test that has absolutely nothing to do with fly airplanes is rediculous!

There are other regionals out there and I will keep looking. For anyone that is planning to interview with Republic, I would strongly suggest that you do a google search on the Wonderlic test and become very familiar with it. People say that you can't study for it, but you can if you do some research.

Don't sweat not getting the republic job. I bet "Passing" on the wonderlic test corresponds to how many pilots they need to hire for the next classes. I really think it has to do with the fact that they are interviewing more people than they need compared to when I interviewed you really had to be a moron or a convict to not get the job. Sign of the times unfortunately, on a positive note the 400 hour airline pilot may for a while be a thing of the past...

I also heard we raised our minimums recently. Is there any truth to that?

[taseal]

Originally Posted by Airdale

Lets see.....its about video time right now...followed by the tests.

http://www.rjet.com/video-cos-win-lg.html


Let us know how it goes!

did that 170 at 2:10 make a 90 degree topgun bank?

that was pretty cool actually. i love those 17Xs... sexy

[taseal]

wth is a wonderlic test?

*googles*

[taseal]

1. A physical education class has three times as many girls as boys. During a class basketball game, the girls average 18 points each, and the class as a whole averages 17 points per person. How many points does each boy score on average?

2. Randolph has 8 ties, 6 pairs of pants, and 4 dress shirts. How many days could he possibly go without wearing the same combination of these three items?

3. John is a mechanic. He makes $8.50 an hour, plus $3 extra for every oil change he performs. Last week he worked 36 hours and performed 17 oil changes. How much money did he make?

4. A box of staples has a length of 6 cm, a width of 7 cm, and a volume of 378 cm cubed. What is the height of the box?

5. What is the average of all of the integers from 13 to 37?

6. A basketball player averaged 20 points a game over the course of six games. His scores in five of those games were 23, 18, 16, 24, and 27. How many points did he score in the sixth game?

7. Arnold is about to go on a 500-mile car trip. His mechanic recommends that he buy a special highway engine oil that will save him 50 cents in gas for every 25 miles of the trip. This new oil, however, will cost $20. Is it worthwhile for Arnold to buy the oil if he has a coupon for $4 dollars off the price?



looks like i'm screwed.



I hate those tests. what does how much cookies arnold gave samantha have to do with descending from 30,000 to 11,000 in 200 miles? lol

[SoCalAprch]

Who knows what it has to do with it. It is BS, if I had to guess I think it is to figure out if you are "smart" or if you just memorized all the gouge out there. Vince Young took this test and scored on the level of a kid in elementary school.

[Polar742]

I think I got a 15 on that test and worked there for 9 years. I wouldn't sweat it. After 2001, the interviews became kinda stupid, almost BS. I talked with a couple FNGs before I left, and I doubt I could get a job there today.

Sucks...sorry to hear it. You will find a good job, don't worry.

[LoadMasterC141]

Oh wow. I would fail that test too unfortunately.

[SIUAv8r]

Originally Posted by SoCalAprch

Don't sweat not getting the republic job. I bet "Passing" on the wonderlic test corresponds to how many pilots they need to hire for the next classes. I really think it has to do with the fact that they are interviewing more people than they need compared to when I interviewed you really had to be a moron or a convict to not get the job. Sign of the times unfortunately, on a positive note the 400 hour airline pilot may for a while be a thing of the past...

I also heard we raised our minimums recently. Is there any truth to that?

I'll agree. They are starting to put people in the pool. I hope they raised the mins too, but I don't know if they did.

[killbilly]

Originally Posted by taseal

1. A physical education class has three times as many girls as boys. During a class basketball game, the girls average 18 points each, and the class as a whole averages 17 points per person. How many points does each boy score on average?

2. Randolph has 8 ties, 6 pairs of pants, and 4 dress shirts. How many days could he possibly go without wearing the same combination of these three items?

3. John is a mechanic. He makes $8.50 an hour, plus $3 extra for every oil change he performs. Last week he worked 36 hours and performed 17 oil changes. How much money did he make?

4. A box of staples has a length of 6 cm, a width of 7 cm, and a volume of 378 cm cubed. What is the height of the box?

I don't THINK I've ever taken this test before, but to me, it appears that these are mostly word problems having to deal with different ratios, which does apply to flying somewhat, in terms of the arithmetic involved. There's one or two questions on the PPL written that are similar in the way you have to calculate, as well.

There are a bunch of questions similar to this in the Logic section of the LSAT, which I have taken, and I'm assuming they're testing for the ability to extrapolate the relevant numbers and crunch them. Just a guess, though.

[Airdale]

Originally Posted by pilot4500

I interviewed yesterday and I thought it was overall a dissapointing experience. I did not get hired. I took Wonderlic test as well as the Instrument test. I thought I did pretty well on both of them.

When they started doing the panel interviews they called me in and said that my interview was being discontinued because I did not score high enough on the Wonderlic test. It is a 50 question test and they give you 12 minutes to complete it. It is almost impossible to complete all of the questions in 12 minutes. I answered 35 questions total. They did not tell me what the minimum passing score was, or which ones I got wrong.

They suggested that I go online and try to take some practice Wonderlic tests. They then thanked me for taking the time to come to Indianapolis to interview and said that I could reapply in 6 months.

There were 7 of us that interviewed that day, and I know of at least 3 who did not score high enough on the Wonderlic test and were sent home.

The guy who went in ahead of me was an American Eagle FO, and he was also sent home because he did not do well enough on the Wonderlic test.

Republic seems like a great company to work for, but I think that sending someone home because they didn't score high enough on a test that has absolutely nothing to do with fly airplanes is rediculous!

There are other regionals out there and I will keep looking. For anyone that is planning to interview with Republic, I would strongly suggest that you do a google search on the Wonderlic test and become very familiar with it. People say that you can't study for it, but you can if you do some research.

Sorry to hear that man. There is a trick to passing the Wonderlic test. Its basically an IQ test, and if you've ever taken a timed IQ test, then the objective is to move swiftly and answer only the questions that you know the answer to. Skip any question that requires you to take more then a few seconds to answer, or just quickly guess the answer.

For example, some of the questions require long division math. Unless you are a math genius, you'll end up wasting time doing the division when you could have been answering 5-6 of the easy questions. I forget how many questions you have to answer correctly, but you definitely have to move fast.

It isn't an aviation related test, but it tests critical thinking skills under pressure. Just another way they filter candidates. The best way to prepare for these is to take timed IQ tests. Goodluck getting on somewhere else, but I encourage you to reapply in 6 months and if offered a second interview, get some practice at those types of tests.

[SoCalAprch]

Originally Posted by Airdale

Sorry to hear that man. There is a trick to passing the Wonderlic test. Its basically an IQ test, and if you've ever taken a timed IQ test, then the objective is to move swiftly and answer only the questions that you know the answer to. Skip any question that requires you to take more then a few seconds to answer, or just quickly guess the answer.

For example, some of the questions require long division math. Unless you are a math genius, you'll end up wasting time doing the division when you could have been answering 5-6 of the easy questions. I forget how many questions you have to answer correctly, but you definitely have to move fast.

It isn't an aviation related test, but it tests critical thinking skills under pressure. Just another way they filter candidates. The best way to prepare for these is to take timed IQ tests. Goodluck getting on somewhere else, but I encourage you to reapply in 6 months and if offered a second interview, get some practice at those types of tests.

But just like an IQ test there is no Pass or Fail. Just average, below average, above average. I bet if they needed to hire 10 out of 12 applicants they would be taking lower scores than if they needed to hire 4 out of 12. Im just saying that passing today is probably different than it was when I was hired.

When I got hired it was the opposite of a pool. They asked me if I could start indoc the following monday, I interviewed on a thursday. I said no and they gave me a class 2 weeks later.

[pilatus028]

Sorry to hear that. I agree it has nothing to do with your pilot skills - it's all about timing. I interviewed in March and got real lucky for many reasons. The big one was the actual interview - no tech questions (not that it would have mattered but wow, a get out of jail card kind of thing). I guess that day was just a good day. I also agree the IQ test is a cheap way to filter people but each airline has their own way of doing things. AE would use speeding tickets, an automatic see you later for many people.

You still have many good options out there, and consider the interview an experience. Not too many people have the chance to interview with such companies. I got turned down by AE, never got a call from about 10 and only got called by Great Lakes, Colgan, and thank the big guy RAH.

[Realms09]

I've been around the standardized-test block a few times. There are only so many types of questions that they ask and each one has a method to go with it. If you want practice at this sort of thing grab an SAT math practice book.

Originally Posted by taseal

1. A physical education class has three times as many girls as boys. During a class basketball game, the girls average 18 points each, and the class as a whole averages 17 points per person. How many points does each boy score on average?

Say there are 3 girls and 1 boy in the class. The girls average 18 points, so for the three of them thats 54 points. There are 4 in the class which averages 17 points, so that's 68 points for the whole class. 68-54 gives 14 points average for the boys (like the girls would score more ).

Originally Posted by taseal

2. Randolph has 8 ties, 6 pairs of pants, and 4 dress shirts. How many days could he possibly go without wearing the same combination of these three items?

Multiply the larger numbers first. 8*6 = 48, 48*4 = 192.

Originally Posted by taseal

3. John is a mechanic. He makes $8.50 an hour, plus $3 extra for every oil change he performs. Last week he worked 36 hours and performed 17 oil changes. How much money did he make?

Round to nearby convenient numbers and then account for the small difference. In this case 8.50 is close to 10, so use 10 instead and then adjust for the 1.50 surplus (36*(1+0.50) = 36 + 18.

36*10 = 360, 360-36 = 324, 324-18 = 306, 17*3 = 51, 306+51 = 357.

Originally Posted by taseal

4. A box of staples has a length of 6 cm, a width of 7 cm, and a volume of 378 cm cubed. What is the height of the box?

6*7 = 42. Guess an easy number for the height. What if the height were 10 cm? Then the volume would be 420. 378 is exactly 42 less than 420, so the height is 9 cm.

Originally Posted by taseal

5. What is the average of all of the integers from 13 to 37?

Each high/low number pair in this sequence adds to 50 (13+37,14+36,etc.). For every two numbers you add to the sequence you add 50, so the average must be 50/2 = 25.

Originally Posted by taseal

6. A basketball player averaged 20 points a game over the course of six games. His scores in five of those games were 23, 18, 16, 24, and 27. How many points did he score in the sixth game?

Only keep track of the difference between the individual game scores and the average.

23 = +3
18 = -2
16 = -4
24 = +4
27 = +7
Previous 5 games are +8, so the final game must be -8 or 12.

Originally Posted by taseal

7. Arnold is about to go on a 500-mile car trip. His mechanic recommends that he buy a special highway engine oil that will save him 50 cents in gas for every 25 miles of the trip. This new oil, however, will cost $20. Is it worthwhile for Arnold to buy the oil if he has a coupon for $4 dollars off the price?

How many units of 25 miles are in the trip? 20. 20*0.50 gives 10 dollars in savings from using the oil. The oil costs Arnold 20-4=16 dollars, so Arnold should not buy the oil just for this trip but should instead have sex with Samantha. Afterwards he may enjoy a cookie for his efforts.

[CamYZ125]

Originally Posted by Realms09

How many units of 25 miles are in the trip? 20. 20*0.50 gives 10 dollars in savings from using the oil. The oil costs Arnold 20-4=16 dollars, so Arnold should not buy the oil just for this trip but should instead have sex with Samantha. Afterwards he may enjoy a cookie for his efforts.

Haha.. funny stuff. Informative post, too.

[tpaRob]

I have never heard of a Wonderlic test... or at least never knew it had a name.

There is a whole market out there on how to study and pass them.

pilot4500, sorry your interview was stopped for something so trivial. I hope it doesn't keep you down for long. Buy a Wonderlic study guide and beat the test.

Rob

[pilot4500]

Thanks guys. In retrospect, I should have done more studying for the wonderlic test. When Republic called to schedule an interview, they said "You can't study for the wonderlic test, just get a goodnight's sleep." I should not have taken that advice. I did some research on the test beforehand, but not nearly enough.

[BuickCFI]

wonderlic is easy, at least it was for me.

[rnodal]

I'm sorry to hear what happened. As a college student, Computer Science Major and Math minor I can say those exams are easy. But the whole 12 minutes is just BS. I think time management is the key specially if all the question are worth the same. I know it must be hard for you and I am very sorry that this happened to you. I'm pretty sure it is not what you deserved. I'm no one to give advice, specially when I have not flight or industry experience, but don't give up! You will make it .

[Realms09]

Originally Posted by pilot4500

Thanks guys. In retrospect, I should have done more studying for the wonderlic test. When Republic called to schedule an interview, they said "You can't study for the wonderlic test, just get a goodnight's sleep." I should not have taken that advice. I did some research on the test beforehand, but not nearly enough.

EVERY test can be studied for, especially standardized ones. Test makers are not creative enough to omit patterns that can be learned with practice.

There will be another opportunity for you soon, and when it comes along you know you'll be ready for it.

[rjcapt]

Republic is not hiring! I went to the April 17th interview. They have no class dates or A/C that they are hiring into. They waited our time.

[pilatus028]

As far as the IQ test goes, well...there is no set pass/fail score. If they want to filter people out at a higher rate they will just make the score to pass higher I would think. You could always study for the test. The week before I took some practice tests online and they were way more difficult than the RAH one. How did I do in the actual interview, I don't know. I could have bombed it for all I know, but they were hiring and I'm sure the bar to pass was not set at the level that it is now. I've been hearing people are getting turned down by the second, and these people probably have higher qualifications than myself.

[SierraPilot123]

Originally Posted by rjcapt

Republic is not hiring! I went to the April 17th interview. They have no class dates or A/C that they are hiring into. They waited our time.

I agree, they are not actively hiring. Or at least, are high, highly selective at this point because they have no need for many pilots.

I went to an interview recently. Aced the written and IQ test (I studied hard). HR went great, tech questions were easy for me, sim good, but they didn't offer me the job. I have plenty of time and a perfectly clean record. Two other guys that interviewed with me (similar times and experience) also didn't get an offer. We don't know anyone out of 8 of us that did get an offer.

The only reason they portray they are still hiring is for "investor relations". It doesn't look good to stop hiring.