Talking about PSA airlines ...
https://casetext.com/case/occhione-v-psa-airlines
This case concerns a pilot in a First Officer position who, on two occasions, voluntarily applied to be promoted to Captain, but failed to pass the required basic flight skills test four times.
I've heard bad stories about training departments, specially from PSA, GoJet, and Breeze.
I just went through Recurrent @ Mesa. It was basically the same as AQP. Instead of a Loft, there are steep turns and a Cat II part of it now.