I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Southwest Airlines (Dallas, TX) in Jan 2017
Interview
Applied online, with employee referral. Then, I was contacted by the university recruiter and had a brief phone call where I was asked some behavioral questions. Afterwards, I was invited to come to their campus for an onsite group interview with my recruiter and 2 team leaders in my field, and I had to submit a Why Southwest essay and 2 recommendation letters prior to the interview (I only submitted the Why Southwest essay, no recommendation letters). This interview lasted an hour and consisted of some simple data structure and programming questions along with some behavioral questions. Everyone was extremely friendly and I was excited to intern at Southwest. A few days later I got a call with an offer!
Coding interview was fairly normal, and for my position/experience, I was also questioned on AWS. I felt it was more geared towards understanding how you think than expecting you to solve an extremely difficult problem while nervous.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Generate a list that meet the criteria of (a) and (b).
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Southwest Airlines
Interview
Got a response from the recruiter 2 months after submitting the application. The first interview was talking to a recruiter about the position and your resume.
The second round was a panel interview with the team, all behavioral questions, going over your resume, and hearing more about the position.
The third round was a second panel interview with the same team; some more behavioral questions, technical questions, and work/background experience.
Didn't hear back after couple weeks despite follow-up with recruiter.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What do you want to work at Southwest?
Where do you see yourself in five years?
Describe a time when you had to take business requirements and translate them to technical requirements.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Southwest Airlines (Dallas, TX) in Oct 2024
Interview
The interview process started by applying online and then doing a recorded interview online afterwards you get contacted by a recruiter and get asked to schedule an interview online. The interview itself is team dependent but for this team included a recruiter the manager and an engineer.