Associate Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Southwest Airlines with 2.5 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 73% positive. To compare, the company-average is 77.7% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Associate Software Engineer roles take an average of 26 days to get hired, when considering 15 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Southwest Airlines overall takes an average of 64 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Southwest Airlines as a Associate Software Engineer according to 15 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 31%
Group panel interview: 28%
One on one interview: 9%
Skills test: 9%
Drug test: 6%
Presentation: 6%
Background check: 3%
IQ intelligence test: 3%
Personality test: 3%
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I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Southwest Airlines (Austin, TX) in Oct 2021
Interview
I had an introductory HR screen interview and nothing else. I'm not sure what would come after, but to be honest I'm glad that I didn't progress any further. The recruiter ran me through the gambit of standard, empty, soulless questions that really had zero bearing on how I would perform at Southwest Airlines. I answered every question they asked the same way that I answered questions for other companies where I progressed further in the interview process. The only question that differed was the "Why do you want to work for Southwest airlines" question.
Ultimately, it became clear that Southwest is not interested in any employees that don't suck up to them because I told them that I did not know much about Southwest as an employer yet, but was looking forward to learning about them in the interview process. I didn't get a second interview.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
What have you done in your spare time since leaving your last job?
Panel interview with senior leader from one of the divisions, a manager/consultant on the team, and the recruiter. Overall felt based on vibes with the team and fundamental object oriented programing questions as well as some behavioral ones. Answered most of them correct but was likely denied because I was being nervous/awkward.
Chaotic. The recruiters and interviews seem disorganized. Had to organize the interview twice and they were late to both. Not super difficult interview since its behavioral mixed with technical questions.
I got an email to schedule a 45 minute phone call with a recruiter. Once I passed that round, I got another email to schedule an hour long video call with 5 people who are in the team I was interviewing for.