Originally Posted by sgrd0q

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.