Source? I said it was anecdotal. I know these pilots personally so it is all first hand information.

I know quite a few WO non-flow pilots from the 3 WO airlines, and to a person every single one of them was either a LCA at their respective WO airline with solid credentials or they were just a regular line pilot but they had AA mom/dad pulling strings for them because not a single one of them had a resume that you would describe as competitive against your typical civilian off the street hire (some blatantly so, IMO). And further about that second group, some of them absolutely were hired in spite of problems that would get unconnected applicants a rejection. I'm not publicly knocking or criticizing it, but there is a fascinating pattern. I'm sure there has to be outliers to this pattern, but I just haven't come across one yet. Take it for what you want.