Yeah, great advice. Pass up an airline that's still upgrading guys/gals in less than a year and where pilots with 3-5 years there are still going directly to jobs at places like Virgin America, Hawaiian, Alaska, Spirit, and recently places like Delta, Southwest, and Allegiant when they were hiring (and yes, all without having a daddy in the training dept.), and not to mention XO jet, and many other corporate/fractionals/135's, as well as Omni, Kalitta, and other cargo and ACMI outfits. Yeah, sleep through the interview, because who knows, after 5 or 6 years at Skywest you could be upgrading in a shiny CRJ.

Looks like you got missed by a day with any replies for last minute advice. Hope your interview went well. As I'm sure you saw, it was a pretty technical interview, If your scan was good during the pcatd or sim event (not sure what they use these days), if you knew your Jepps, and the aircraft your currently flying, and you went in there with a positive personality and you were yourself, I'm sure you're good.

Despite what many on this thread say, Lakes is really a great place to get your time. Does the pay suck? Absolutely, being an FO and especially first year is going to hurt. However if you take the first available upgrade ( which looks like its running under a year), then you are where most FO's are pay wise at places like Skywest, Republic, XJet, etc where you wouldn't upgrade until 2017 at the soonest.

Does quality of life suck? That really depends on your outlook. I had a blast there, the planes were fun, the other crew members were awesome, the overnights were generally a good time. But again, it wasn't all rosy, the regular jr. assigning( basically having to work on days off) stank, the minimum 10 days a month off on reserve wasn't fun, the constant irregular operations (pretty much not flying what your schedule for the month said you were going to fly) was occasionally stressful. But you get through it, get what you can from them ( a type rating or two, pic time, a check airman or instructor position), and quickly move on

In the end its all extremely valuable experience and definitely opens the door directly to much better opportunities, much faster than pretty much any CRJ/ERJ/ E-Jet outit.