Originally Posted by Shadre Reevis

Assuming the hours you have satisfy 121.436, the company will first try to fill the upgrades using their own requirements (2500 tt, 1000 at company). If there aren't enough people that meet their requirements, they will lower the requirements until they can fill all the slots. Of course they cannot lower them below the FAR requirements.

That being said, there are people hired in November with 0 company hours that have already been awarded captain.