Spoilers, sorry to hear about your experience. I was there as well. I feel like I had the exact same experience as you on Friday. I have 4100TT, 3000 jet, 1100TPIC mixed over corporate, charter, and airline flying. After 3 hrs waiting in line, I finally was able to speak to a line pilot. He admitted to me right away that he was not really part of the hiring dept but had come in to help with the overwhelming amount of candidates after receiving a call from JH that morning and decided to come in on his own time and help out. So shortly after admitting he was a "fill-in", he grazed over my resume quickly and fixated on the 4100TT and told me 5000 was a min competitive threshold I had to be at for consideration. He briefly patted me on the back about my 1000+ TPIC time, but said I need more total time to be competitive.

The whole exchange took 2-3 minutes and I didn't feel like I had a chance to speak on my own behalf. He was interested in flushing through the big line of candidates.

I came back on Saturday and stood in line for another 3 hours and Im glad I did. This time the candidates were being pre screened by HR team members. If they didn't like you, you were stopped there. If they did like what they saw/heard you were placed in a queue to speak one-on-one with a Pilot Recruiter (Base Chief or other line pilot on the pilot recruitment team). I made it passed the HR and went on to talk to one of the Chiefs. I had probably 10-15 minutes for each step. All relatively easy questions, tell me about yourself, your career, why do you want alaska, why would alaska want you, TMAAT customer service stuff. At the end, I was told I seem like the candidate AS is looking for and to make sure I get my app in on the next window (will be my 4th attempt) which should open on/around march 10th. No 1st day interview invite, but I do know of at least one person who was given 1st day interview on Saturday.

After Friday, I felt pretty worthless. After Saturday, I was feeling great!