Filled out a couple of applications with GA-ASI online on a whim, but wasn't getting my hopes up. I was actually surprised when I received an email back several weeks later informing me that they wanted to move forward with one of the jobs I applied for. Aced the 3 online tests that I had to take (well, one was basically just a questionnaire about living in harsh conditions, being deployed to combat zones, etc). The other two were basic avionics and electronics questions: Boolean logic, Coulomb’s law, troubleshooting practices, FOD control, that sort of thing. Then came the phone interview with the head of hiring at the facility that I was to be working out of. Pretty much just a short version of the questions that they would ask more in depth later on: education, employment history, tell a story about a time that you had to perform a difficult task, describe in as much detail as possible an avionics system that you're familiar with. The person doing the interview most likely will not know what you're talking about, but it is recorded and reviewed by a manager from the relevant department who will understand, so don't try to BS this part. A few weeks later I received a phone call letting me know that they were moving forward with my application and we set up a date for me to fly out for a face-to-face interview. They put me up in a local hotel for 3 nights, paid for my flight across the country, paid for a rental car, and reimbursed me for food and other expenses. I arrived at the facility at 6am and the interview with the hiring manager began at around 7am. He was a congenial enough guy, and we spent almost as much time with banter and personal chatting as we did about job related matters. After the initial chit-chat, I had to take another 20 question test, with an hour time limit. This is just to make sure that you didn’t cheat on the online test. The questions were almost verbatim from the online tests, with some of the numbers changed around. This test however is a strict go / no-go deal. If you fail it, the interview is automatically over. After that I talked again with the hiring manager for about 30 minutes about the rest of the process. I was taken to an empty hangar where I had to perform a hands-on practical test with a very rudimentary test bench set-up while an avionics instructor silently evaluated me. The biggest things that they look for are attention to detail, ability to follow instructions and obviously FOD and tool control. If you're a former military tech, this is all second nature to begin with. Having passed that, I met with an assistant manager from the avionics department, then my would-be supervisor for some small talk and general questions. Then the real interview started with the manager of the avionics department and the supervisor. The questions start basic enough and become more advanced. Things like: describe the systems you are familiar with, what is the frequency range of VHF and a lot of hypothetical and personality questions. Have plenty of stories to tell them, and be as detailed as possible. Normally I'm used to having to dumb down things when I explain them to the people in charge; this was the first time I've ever had to sound as technical as possible. After almost two hours of straight talking and answering questions and asking a few of my own, they joked that the hard part is usually getting people to talk, but with me that was certainly not an issue. By this point it was about 1pm so they bought me lunch at the cafeteria, and afterwards I talked about what the job would require and what I would be doing with the same assistant manager. She then brought me back to the HR manager’s office where we discussed where we go from there. He checked to make that my security clearance was still active and explained the benefits and what they would do to get me moved out and settled in. After all of this, he gave me a starting salary that honestly was a lot more than I was expecting, and I signed the employment agreement to begin the day after I graduated in December. By the time I left it was after 4pm. Being a few months from graduating college I was extremely relieved to have secured a job and began making preparations to move across the country and start my new life. After almost 1 month of no contact from the company I was getting a bit anxious. I then received a phone call from the same hiring manager who had run my interview and hiring process informing me that they had decided to rescind their offer of employment, and he refused to give me any reason, in spite of me asking several times for further clarification. To lose the job had upset me, but the fact that they strung me along for almost 2 months under the impression that I had secured a job when I could have been applying to other companies was extremely unnerving. Several months later and I still have never received any reason for the withdrawal of the offer, which makes it even worse.