This is all pretty disturbing. At 500 hours, most pilots or at least 99% of them don't know jack. They just think they do. I have known of one person I met who was hired at BankAir with 400 hours or so but he happened to have also worked for them as an ops superviser and was well liked.
I realized at about 2000 hours how little I knew. This coming year I'll be looking for a right-seat corporate job with 2500-3000TT and say 750 multi and 500 turboprop and I don't like my chances of being competitive. If I lived in Florida, ok, but not up in the northeast.
Mr. I.