[Bahamut]

I've heard of airline companies doing similar when interviewing flight attendants - United will fly you to Newark to interview, but often there will be people shadowing candidates to see how they behave during their travels and that feedback is taken into account when evaluating candidates.

[sargun]

A strong part of me believes that United indexes on how much of an asshole the person can be. /s.

But, seriously, I feel like if you're using a potential employer's services, you should assume they're taking that into account when they're hiring you.

[influx]

Seriously, compare the employees of United vs Southwest and there's a huge difference in attitude. Southwest employees seem happy, friendly, helpful, while United... Not.

[metadat]

It's impressive if they have the resources and sophistication to really execute on this.

[_moof]

It's really nothing - just a different fare code. Gate agents and cabin crew can already tell when someone is a non-rev (e.g. an employee using flight benefits), so looping them in on the backend is just a quick schedule lookup and a couple more people on the feedback system. (N.B.: I'm not saying this actually happens, because I don't know; just that it would be very little trouble using systems that are already in place. I, for one, didn't change out of my suit until after I'd gotten back home when I did an airline interview.)

[facet1ous]

They could just note to flight attendants that there are passengers interviewing w/ the airline and have them raise any red flags pretty easily.