Originally Posted by rickair7777
Mesa saves the money on the interview sim and lets the training department weed out non-hackers. Ground School and the oral are pretty cheap, so they eliminate a few folks there, then when you go to sim training you have to prove your sh*t in the first 3-4 sessions...if you have trouble early on in the sim, you're gone. Mesa training is not easy, it is still part of the interview! I do understand that SKW training is more thorough, but not hard compared to Mesa (this is from folks who have done both recently). But SKW seems to do their weed out during the interview stages, and focus on training new hires.
Which is to say airlines like MESA can do some damage to your career.
Suppose you are not current. If you go to an airline that does most of the elimination at the interview (read sim check involved) then you obviously don't pass the interview. From that point on, nobody knows or cares to know why you didn't get hired. You, on the other hand, learn your lesson and try again.
If however the culture is to weed out people mostly during training then washing out of training can be damaging to your career.