The airline at which I had that experience is a small, turboprop regional, and it was 11 years ago, not that it is relevant. By the way, it wasn't Mesa. Even back then, it was not known as a very good place to work.

I don't know if anyone logs MS sim time, I'm not the logbook police. I'll leave that to the FAA. Based on some of the instrument skills I have seen at the airline level ately, perhaps you're on to something.

As far as bringing that up in an airline interview, it could be construed as, similiar to your hypothetical question, silly.