"Event day" details are well known, and laid out in detail here so no need to expound on again. But here are a few observations that might help others like me. Everyone else seems to describe these interviews as an "amazing experience", and say how warmly everyone treats you. Anything but in my experience, overall it felt surprisingly cold, inauthentic and adolescent to me. First they tell you even tho the event is open 30 minutes before start time, not to arrive too early due to space considerations. But as I arrived on time I noticed a hint of disdain and felt I was automatically dinged. The presentation segment felt more like being back in high school, given by the condescending "head mistress" who checked us in. My questions specifically were summarily dismissed. Recruiters were then trotted in, in various forms of dress, business to casual to weekend wear, all branded with wide smiles that were extremely forced, and fake. A few to the point where they looked like professional clowns. I say this with no offense, but literally. The group activity was odd in that the groups are pre-assigned(based on?), rather than random. And if you're new to the job, and unfamiliar with how these drink carts are organized, you're at a severe disadvantage, so the unfairness of this assessment is glaring. Even tho they say the point is to assess how you get along with your teammates, nope. If you have flight attendant experience or this isn't your first interview this will be a breeze, either by being able to take charge or immediately spring into action. Otherwise unless your group is extremely familiar and close knit you'll likely feel lost. Perhaps this is something you should specifically research if you have no experience and you'd like to be successful. Along with the star-format I don't get the logic of so many different airlines using the exact same exercises to assess talent across organizations, unless they're all interested in the exact same type of worker bee? As someone previously stated by another poster, if you aren't amongst the first to be called out of the room into the F2F, or in other words if hours have passed and you've noticed that half the room is empty, and you're on pins and needles waiting to hear your name, forcing yourself to keep your spirits up, to continue chatting endlessly about nothing, and everyone starts to fidget nervously, trying desperately not to keep sipping water knowing it'll only urge trips to the restroom, for fear that you'll miss your turn up. It's literally torture. If you find yourself at this point you might do better saving yourself the utter humiliation and walking out. They've already dashed any chance you had of getting hired. Your interview will now just be perfunctory, your recruiter will only begrudgingly and unenthusiastically come to receive you, the exchange will have no life and you'll probably feel so dejected and undeserving it will become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Out of 31 candidates, and nearly 4 hours into the event, I was the very last to be called. I'm almost certain I was forgotten about, dismissed, ignored, and most of the recruiters had already checked out and/or gone home. The head guy had to finally force one of them to go through the motions and take me as she clearly didn't want to be bothered. It was a dehumanizing experience. I was tempted to simply leave in the nearly 30 minutes I waited alone, but challenged myself not to let them break me. Honestly I felt the whole process was broken. And it made me not want to even be apart of the organization. Sitting there waiting the whole time gave me some sense of how many prospects simply disappeared(escorted out), and who was sent back to continue on. Not certain but my sense is that only a small fraction were offered jobs. Which begs the question is there some larger point of creating these circus-like hiring events - and in effect wasting a lot of people's time, effort, money - than simply finding promising new hires? Surely they knew going in they would only take on a handful of new candidates. If not there's something seriously wrong with their funneling process. Why aren't these organizations doing a better job of drilling down, editing and concentrating on exactly who's a good fit for them, and then inviting those to a normal business-like interview? Rather than these mass pageant-like cattle calls, where they put on these redundant presentations equipped with impromptu pep rallies, and then trot out un pageant like judges panels. The whole thing was kind of ridiculous to me, but it was a teachable moment if nothing else.