Wizz Air Pilot Interview Details

You will gather early in the morning in the Wizz training center in Budapest, the recruitment team will verify that all required documents are in order, licence, medical, logbook, for cadets the MCC and AUPRT certificate and of course identification. Do not show up with expired documents because they will send you home. If you have an electronic logbook they will ask the you to remove the password from your device and hand it over, they will verify the details just like a paper logbook. After this you will receive a short presentation about the company, you may be given a chance to ask questions, but there is not much time to go through individual problems.

Company knowledge, simple facts like fleet size, types of aircraft, CEO’s name, and general information about Wizz.

ATPL theory questions about minimums, fuel policy, runway and taxiway markings, lights, METARs and TAFs. No silly ATPL questions here, it will be stuff that you will be using on a daily basis during normal operations.

Occasionally something less common, like “How many firefighting vehicles are required for a certain airport category?”

Math under pressure, classic speed/distance/time, volumes, big multiplications (e.g., 35,067 × 3,242), division, and ratios. Expect high-school style word problems like “If five workers complete a job in X time, how long would nine need?”

Charts, a couple of chart-based questions where the obvious answer can be a trap. Slow down and think carefully.

No calculators are allowed just pen, paper.

Once finished, candidates are split into groups for the next exercise. You won’t know how well you did, you will proceed to the group exercise and the first batch of people will be sent home after only the group exercise is finished.

In this stage, you will be split into small groups and asked to solve a task together. Cadets, experienced FO, Captains, everyone is together. Observers watch closely; how do you interact with the group. Communication, teamwork, leadership, and listening skills all matter here. Do not try to dominate the discussion but do not be too passive either, they are not really expecting you to actually solve the problem. They are watching how do you interact with the group. After this is finished they will announce who have passed so far and can proceed to the personal interview. You will not receive any feedback at all.

This stage combines technical and personal interviews. There will be two pilots from the recruitment team sitting in front of you. One will talk to you, one will take notes. The discussion starts casually, introduce yourself quickly, your aviation career, why do you want to join Wizz etc.

They may ask your base preference, and they might ask that would you be still joining if you do not receive your preferred base? Say yes of course. They might ask if you want to pay for your type rating or would you prefer to pay it back in installments once you are on the line.

Technical questions are really dependent on your experience, if you are a cadet with 200 hours be prepared to know your multi engine aircraft that you have trained on inside and out.  They can really ask anything here. They might give you a METAR to decode. They might give you a picture of a runway and ask to point out TORA, TODA, ASDA etc. They might ask you to explain how a turbocharger works. Take a moment before you answer, do not try to make up stories, if you give a wrong answer is still not a big deal, they will ask follow up questions, they will try to see how you think and if you realize that you made a mistake and how do you recover. This is probably the only part that you can not prepare 100% because the possible topics are endless. If you do not know something just admit that you don’t know it and move on.

Experienced pilots will receive technical questions related to their type rating as well. If you have Airbus family, they will dig deep to see how well you understand the aircraft systems.

CRM questions about how you have worked in a team before, they might tell you “You smell alcohol on your captain during the briefing, what do you do?” Be smart and not say that you accuse him straight away, say that you ask the purser to check as well, if both of you smell it then give a chance to the captain to unfit himself. “Hey captain, you doing, okay? Slept well? Etc.” Under no circumstances say that you will fly with him. He will have to be offloaded either by himself or by force, if necessary, but we are trying not to create a scene. Especially if this scenario is on the aircraft already.

They might give you any scenario, like you have a suspected fuel leak, your destination is 40 minutes away great weather, you have another suitable airfield 20 minutes away but the weather is below minimums. What do you do and why? (Go to the one closer, we do not care about busting minimums if we can fall out of the sky at any moment because we run out of fuel)

After they have finished interviewing everyone, they will announce who will be invited for the simulator assessment next day. The rest go home, no feedback given.

Second day, really early, like 5-6AM briefing. They will explain everything and tell you what is expected of you. Cadets will go with cadets, experienced guys with experienced. They will pair up type rated with type rated and NTR with NTR.

For cadets they will help you with everything, it will be basic airwork, steep turns, descent, climb, nothing too crazy, but they will test your situational awareness, and multi tasking, they might ask you basic math questions when you are in a 45 degree bank and trying to hold altitude, they might ask you your mothers name. They will try to stress you out, you might have to fly a holding manually, they might just ask what would your entry be, and ask the PM if he agrees with that or not. At the end guaranteed you will have a raw data ILS, you are judged until minimums, not for the landing. If you are unstabilized, go around, they will reposition you and you will get a second chance.

Experienced NTR guys will get the same but might throw in an emergency where your decision-making skills are evaluated, like a sick passenger, etc.

TR guys will guaranteed to have some kind of emergency.

It is very important to pay for a few hours in an airbus SIM if you are a cadet, and especially if you have not flown FBW before. Even if you completed your MCC in Airbus, just go and take 2-3 hours before the interview.

You will do both PF and PM for about 20-30 minutes. As PM you must be active and call out speed, altitude deviations etc. Not just sit there.

After everyone is finished they will announce who passed and can proceed to the next stage and who has to go home. Again there will be no feedback provided.

The final stage is a psychometric and psychological test. This measures cognitive abilities, problem-solving, memory, and personality traits. I suggest paying for an online service to practice this if you want to do well. Also, there is a psychological assessment in here. You will have to answer like 300 questions and the computer will decide if you are the right person for the job or not. Just answer honestly, it is designed in such a way that you cannot fake it.

Once you completed that, you are finally done. You will have to wait for your results, which can come in 2 hours or 2 weeks later. It is very intense two days, rest properly, take a light breakfast and drink plenty of water. If you fail cheer up, you can try again after a lockout period. Its tough, about 20% of the pilots pass the selection so if you do not succeed for the first time that does not mean you will not succeed next time.