LOT Polish Airlines interview questions
51 candidate-reported items · stages covered: Online aptitude and knowledge tests, Assessment day, Group exercise, HR interview, Panel interview, Technical interview, Simulator assessment
Candidates report 51 interview questions for LOT Polish Airlines, across 7 stages of the selection process. Every question below comes from published candidate reports or airline material — grouped by where in the process it came up.
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The LOT Polish Airlines selection process
- Candidate reports place LOT Polish Airlines questions at these stages: Online aptitude and knowledge tests, Assessment day, Group exercise, HR interview, Panel interview, Technical interview, Simulator assessment.
- Airlines change their selection often — treat this as what recent candidates report, not an official syllabus.
Reported LOT Polish Airlines interview questions
Every item below is something a candidate reported being asked — no invented questions. Where the report carried a role or year, it is shown.
Online aptitude and knowledge tests
- Cut-E/Aon online battery modules: verbal/numerical/abstract reasoning, psychomotor coordination, reaction time, working memory, multi-tasking, spatial orientation, plus Adapt personality questionnaire
Assessment day
- Psychometric / aptitude test: 'they don't apparently use VTS. They just give you a paper book of 36 pages of abstract reasoning questions, and 9 math logical questions. And that's it. It all takes about 30 minutes. And after that is a sim session.' (LOT had pre-announced a Vienna Testing System; candidates report it was not used)
- A ~36-page paper book of abstract reasoning questions (the Day 2 'psychotest' was paper-based, NOT the Vienna Test System as candidates had been told beforehand)
- Roughly 9 maths / logical questions on the Day 2 written test
Group exercise
- Group exercise (day 1, first activity, ~20 min, six candidates): 'Everybody gets a paper with a different description of city streets and you all need to draw a Map of the city combining your clues.'
- Group exercise (framed by the airline's own assessors): 'As in every assessment you do not have to find solution to the problem, but you have to show that you take part in finding one.'
HR interview
- E195 pre-flight briefing scenario - captain dismisses your weather brief ('I've flown into Krakow a hundred times, we'll be fine') with thunderstorms forecast
- How would you handle needing to relocate (to Warsaw) as an international candidate?
- B2B contract terms are the first thing discussed - candidates are advised to know the B2B structure before attending
- What are your professional goals / how do you assess your ability to take risks?
- I am type rated and captain since years, they asked me if i would fly the right seat for some time — i think it's not worth.
- Tell me about your previous experience (present total/PIC/multi-engine/instrument/night hours, types, airline, duration, role)
- What is your motivation for becoming a pilot / for joining LOT? (HR reportedly argued with whatever answer the candidate gave — 'that's not really a motivation. In other words if you don't match their answers it must be wrong')
- Where would the 787 type rating be done / which aircraft will I be assigned to? (answered with 'it's a little early to say what jet you would be on')
- What type of First Officer are you — or will you be?
- Why would you want to fly for LOT? (interviewer advice to candidates: 'Just be yourself, and of course think about why you would want to fly for LOT')
- Fleet-assignment probing: candidate asked where the 787 type rating would be done and was told 'it's a little early to say what jet you would be on. In other words you are experienced on one of our NB's so we are sending you there' (i.e. you may be placed on a different type than the one you interviewed for)
- What are your professional goals?
- English language check as part of the day-one interview (listed alongside the Principles of Flight / fuel planning / Jeppesen items)
- How do you handle needing to relocate? (candidates report being pressed on willingness to be based in Warsaw)
- Logbook interrogation: interviewers questioned every entry and discrepancy in the logbook, line by line, as if the candidate were a criminal - even where all time was backed by airline references and records
- How do you assess your ability to take risks?
- Logbook interrogation: 'The interview felt more like an interrogation than a professional interview where they get to know you. They questioned every little possible issue in his logbook as if he was some kind of criminal. All his flying and sim time is legit backed up by professional airline references and records yet apparently his logbook is not done correctly according to LOT.'
- What is your motivation for becoming a pilot?
- What is your motivation for joining LOT / why LOT?
- Basic HR/competency questions, described by the candidate as 'as basic as can get'
- What is the most important decision you've made in your career?
Panel interview
- Fuel planning
- The B787 composite fuselage allows higher cabin pressure. Explain the implications.
- Questions on Principles of Flight
- They pointed at a jetstream at FL350 marked with minimum and maximum height and asked what the speed of the jetstream at the minimum level is (answer: at least 60 knots) — asked of another candidate in the same sitting
- Descent planning (based on distance, or on time)
- Take-off and low visibility landing minima
- Jeppesen plates, TAF and METAR decoding as part of the technical element
- TAS, ISA temperature, Jeppesen charts, a little EROUTE and aerodrome charts, and meteo — 'Very basic questions ... Nothing too difficult'
- A few questions from Jeppesen plates (jep plates)
- Type-related questions on the aircraft you last flew / are rated on ('besides type related questions, they asked me general questions...'); one candidate reports both the technical and personal parts were 'very basic and nothing in particular was covered'
- FTL and 'discretion' — 'technical questionnaire was not in depth at all, just a few general, e.g. FTL, discretion etc.' (Budapest sitting)
- Tropopause height and why it is important to know
- Coffin corner
Technical interview
- TAS and ISA temperature questions
- Enroute (airway) charts and aerodrome charts
- TAF and METAR decoding (meteo) test as part of the technical interview
- ATPL technical written/oral covering aerodynamics, meteorology, navigation, performance and Boeing systems knowledge, with Boeing-specific flavour (hydraulic architecture, engine indication, conventional vs fly-by-wire)
- Jeppesen chart/plate reading (paper plates) test as part of the technical interview
Simulator assessment
- Simulator check on the ALSIM ALX / generic medium-jet FFS, flown in pairs with whoever is in the assessment group that day (captains paired with ~200-hour NTR cadets) - pitched on handling basics rather than type-specific skills; a briefing pack is sent a few days ahead
- Simulator (2018 format): 'a sim screening on their Alsim performing a SID, STAR and approach, no emergencies' — i.e. departure via SID, vectors, ILS approach; PM is one of the assessors; you brief beforehand
- Simulator (May 2019, Warsaw): 'Sim was on a 737 and I just performed few approaches. No emergencies or non standard situations.'
- Simulator (Dec 2018/Jan 2019 sitting, Alsim MCC trainer based on EMB 170): visual circuit over Warsaw first to get a feel of the sim, then IFR departure, general handling (steep turns, climb/descend turns), VOR tracking, a possible hold, then a general engine failure where you have to act in accordance with the QRH, then ILS approach and landing — and after that you act as a PNF
- Simulator (April 2019 sitting): 'Sim is ALX FTPN, generic a/c. They will provide you with briefing pack a few days earlier (3 for me) but it will be to little use for you.' Candidates are paired arbitrarily with whoever else is in the sitting — reported as 'basically Captain and NTR cadet with 200 hours together'. Candidates reported the hardest part was basics: 'you don't know how to do things in the simulator. Pitch and power settings, anything.'
- Simulator briefs in the modern LOT format emphasise communication and error management, and assessors score 'trainability' - how you handle mistakes matters more than flawless flying; they want someone they can work with, not someone who already knows everything
FAQ
- What questions does LOT Polish Airlines ask at interview?
- Our research catalog holds 51 candidate-reported items for LOT Polish Airlines. Examples candidates reported: “The B787 composite fuselage allows higher cabin pressure. Explain the implications.”; “Questions on Principles of Flight”; “Descent planning (based on distance, or on time)”.
- What does the LOT Polish Airlines selection process look like?
- Based on candidate reports, questions come up at these stages: Online aptitude and knowledge tests, Assessment day, Group exercise, HR interview, Panel interview, Technical interview, Simulator assessment. This is reported evidence, not LOT Polish Airlines's official syllabus.
- Does LOT Polish Airlines ask technical questions?
- Yes — 22 of the 51 reported items are technical or ATPL-level. The rest split between personal/motivation questions and scenario-based CRM probes.
- How do I practice for the LOT Polish Airlines interview?
- AirlineBridge runs a free voice-first practice interview tuned on the questions LOT Polish Airlines candidates report — 10, 25 or 45 minutes, with a scored debrief across eight behavioural dimensions.
- Is this LOT Polish Airlines's official hiring process?
- No. Everything on this page is candidate-reported or published prep evidence, collected for interview practice. Always verify current requirements and stages with LOT Polish Airlines recruiting.
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