US Airways Analyst Interview Questions
& Process

The interview process for the Pricing/Yield Analyst is pretty standard. You start with a phone screen, then there's a group interview, and a skills test involving probability/stats and basic arithmetic. If you pass the phone screen, they'll fly you out to Phoenix for the face-to-face interviews. The onsite consists of three sets of interviews with two interviewers each, and they all ask the exact same questions with a very rigid, serious demeanor. You'll also have an awkward lunch with someone who doesn't seem very happy. The skills test is taken somewhere between the interviews and lunch. Apparently, they sometimes hire theater majors, which is wild. Honestly, I was glad I didn't get an offer because it felt like a personality downgrade. These people are just too serious, and it really shows. They don't smile much and, as others have noted, rarely make eye contact. It made me wonder if it was the job, but being an analyst doesn't seem that hard. If you do decide to go for the free flight and lunch, remember: don't smile and don't make eye contact. Do that, and maybe you'll have a chance.

I had a phone interview where they asked basic questions, including some quantitative and case-study type questions. The interviewer was really cool and made a good impression. A few days later, I got an email asking me to fly out to Tempe for interviews at their headquarters. It seemed like a lot of MBAs were also being interviewed. I had three interviews there: one behavioral, one big case study, and one with several smaller cases. The interviewers were nice, and the recruiting process seemed very professional.

This was a really long interview process for a job that doesn't even pay market rate, and the company seems to be in a bad spot. A recruiter reached out to me about this role and we had a phone interview. After that, she said she'd let me know if I moved on to the first round interviews, which I thought the phone interview was. The first round involved technical questions, case questions, and a lot about the airline industry. The interviewer talked up US Airways' innovative culture, citing them as the first airline to charge for bags. Even though that interview didn't really impress me, I got to the final round, which had four interviews back-to-back: one technical, one operations case study, one financial case study, and a behavioral interview. I wasn't impressed by the interviewers' intelligence. I didn't get the job, but I think it's for the best.