From the other PoV, the interviewing process for a legacy pilot is really quite straightforward when you consider it’s easily a 200-500k job. You aren’t competing with anybody, if they bring in 15 to interview, they’ll have no qualms hiring 15 if everybody makes the grade. My friends in the white collar world making equivalent paychecks to us go through many more rounds of hiring (screening, interview with recruiter, maybe another with hiring manager, then possibly a final with a C-level or other executive), and hours worked is way more than us. When I go on trips with them, I’m typically the only one who doesn’t field a single work call, text, or email the whole time.

Not saying we do it perfectly in the airlines, but when you compare with similar paying jobs, ours is relatively shorter and more cut and dry.