The previous postings are all right on the money except for the references on the application. The application can be picked up at the Continental terminal at any airport (fill out time grid ahead of time). The references need to cover everything you have done for the last 10 years. Meaning, one ref for your current job, one for your last job, one for school etc.
There is one other exception, After the first interview you get called back for a second interview after lunch (if they like you thus far). At the second interview, they will call out all the "non-hires" to interview first. If you hear "Mr. Dresser is out today.... we aren't in a hurry to hire because the classes are full for the next three months......we'll let you know in 5 to 10 days.....we are just gathering information for Mr. Dresser..... Etc. and they send you out for the 3pm shuttle, you didn't get it. Mr. Dresser is in the next hotel room waiting for the non-hires to leave.
My best advice,
fill out everything to the exact format they request (unemployed times on your employment sheet), have all documents when they ask for them (license, medical, etc.) and tell them how great their company is (23 qtrs. of consistent profitability).

I interviewed with Express on Aug 3, 2000. I won't go into the details of everything, because everything that is said here before is exact. 11
people interviewed that day. My time was 770, 110 multi. Time ranged
from 600 to 2000+. No ex-military, mostly flight instructors. Got
there at 8, got 30 minute info session on where the company is, and
where it is going. Then we got the wonderlic test. Soon after came the
application, and the filling out of the hours gridsheet. They started
taking people out one by one for interviews. I went last. The
interview was a little confrontational, talked about flying, got
airspeeds, going below minimums on non-precision approach. they two
senerios. I don't think it really matter what you say, they are going
to play the devil-advocate and try you to change your mind. I justed
stayed really calm and presented my reasons for my decision. Again like
said before, I just think they want you to stick to your guns. After
about 30 minutes I was told to come back after lunch. 5 of the 11 were
asked to come back, all at different times. We all gathered about the
same time, and they started calling us out one by one for second
interview. the people never came back into the room. They there was
just me and this other guy, we waited about 90 minutes and then John
Dresser came in and offered us jobs. No second interview, I got the
B1900D, and the other guy got the ATR. Really good experience, and of
course I say that because I got the job. They are a really good company
and I'm really happy to be working for them. As said before, show them
you really want the job, like with any interview, you are trying to sell
yourself, just don't be cocky. Good Luck.

Hello. I interviewed with Continental Express on July 7th. First thing I outta tell you is that they've done away with the intimidation type of interview. As a matter of fact John Dresser was making quips about US being too uptight. They need pilots. Granted, you need to know your shit, and you'll be asked about every nook and cranny of your response, but so long as you are not B.S.-ing your way along you'll do O.K.

Same profile as the other interviews here. Van Ride, Holiday Inn, Rosewood Room...yada yada. I didn't get any useful information out of the van driver. Had a nice chat with him about where I was from...but he had only been driving the van for about 3 weeks...so not much info to tell us.

I met one other candidate on the van, and we planned to get together after checking in. He had a buddy that was hired the week before and said he knew a lot about the interview. As it turned out he didn't tell me anything that I had not read on this site. One nice thing was that he had a sample of the Wonderlic test. It was something he got while in school in Florida. I read through that, and as a matter of fact some of the same questions were on the exam the following day. I wouldn't worry about it though...there was nothing on there that you can't handle.

There were 10 of us that day. My interview was pretty basic. About half HR stuff and half technical things. I goofed one of the first questions, but did not realize till later in the interview. I couldn't understand why he was asking me so many variations on the same question...then I realized I had been a little over confident and blurted out the wrong interpretation of the FAR. It's interesting in retrospect to see how the interviewer handled my wrong answer. I think he knew I misquoted the regulation, but played along anyway...and used it to cover a lot more ground. Pretty cool, because he got to see how I think...form opinions...and so forth. After he was satisfied, I got a few more technical ones that I nailed no problem. Nothing that hasn't been listed here.

Oh...I produced a real nice looking folder with all my records as suggested in a couple of postings. He took one look at it and said "That looks nice...now take it all out of there so our HR people don't have to...". Have your things in order...but I wouldn't over do it.

I was told to come back at 1:30pm. Others were given different times. Long story short, 7 of us ended up sitting in the Rosewood room later that day and were offered jobs. I got the 1900, along with one other person. Three people got the ATR and two got the ERJ. It seemed heavily weighted on multi time. I had 100 point zero multi. My total time was in the midrange for the people there (1020), but I had the lowest multi time. And, yeah, I could have interviewed better. Bottom line: I'm gonna be flying something that burns kerosene, and doing it for arguably the best regional out there. By the way...the whole process was very professional. I came away wanting to work for CoEx even more than I did when I got there. I seems like a great group of people who love working for their company. Very cool.

Best of Luck to you!!!!!!!

I interviewed with John Dresser and contrary to some of the other post found him to be fair, he has been doing this for along time and is a very skilled interviewer, he picks up on everything (voice tones, vocabulary tenses & body language). With that in mind the theme of being honest and having a good attitude is very important. Some tips & opinions, 1. Know your FAR/AIM
2. Present yourself as a Conservative professional
3. Be prepared ( No stupid application questions, cost 1 guy in our group) have all paperwork you can completed before you get there. I stole the idea from another post and put it all in a report binder with a cover sheet.
4. Do not be intimidated by the other applicants, I was the low time guy in our interview group, I and the other successful canidates believed that actually works in your favor ( not having too much time ) they want to hire and train you to be COEX pilots.
5. Be on your best behavior. I do not know if they have the man power and network to monitor an applicant from start of trip to finish as others have stated, but one lady who works in the bar told another interviewee who went down the night before to order a coke at the bar that she shouldn't drink it in the bar area because John Dresser "patrols" the hotel in the evenings and does not like to see applicants sittting in the bar. If you are not worried about impressions the night before an important interview they may assume that once you start flying the line you will not be concerned.
6. Be humble and confident. DO NOT BE COCKY!!
7. Short concise answers. They seemed to not like chatty answers, and they can open a can of worms.

Here are some of the questions that were asked that day(in no particular order):
1. Why do you want to work at COEX
2. "When I say COEX what are the first three words that come to mind?"
3. If you were king for the day what plane would you want to fly? within COEX
4. Where do you want to be based?
5. Define MEA, FAF, MOCA, MOROCA, MRA, MCA?
6. If you are established on the ILS where is the FAF? Now you are at 8,000 ft. 10 miles out where is the FAF now? (not sure about this one but this is what the guy told me the question was?
7. Brief Waco VOR 14 approach? Circle to land missed approach?
8. Scenario: Smell alcohol on captains breath during takeoff roll before V1. What do you do?
9. Seat belt unlatched on takeoff roll? What do you do? Why?
10. They asked alot of people about high school grades. My question was why did you make a "D" in algebra?

One last note all the interviewers know what is posted on this and other boards, (John Dresser actually brought up this subject) so they expect that at a minimum you know the stuff that is repeated out here. Good Luck. It is stressful, but worth it...

Interviewed with COEX on July 31 2000, I have 743 total 352 multi. Needless to say I was the lowest time guy there but I did have more multi than the
majority. Did the normal paperwork and aptitude tests. There were two guys
there yesterday, one young white guy I think Clay and one young black guy I
think Hughes. I interviewed second with Hughes. Pretty straight forward
guy, asked me the typical HR questions and what kind of flying I had been
doing, Lasted twenty minutes and he told me that was it that he would be in
touch by mail around Friday of this week. I guess I didn't make it. I think
two guys out of ten got hired on the spot. My questions were all HR no
technical. Oh well, I guess I wasn't qualified enough all thought I'm 21 and
have a degree.