This is exactly 180 degrees out from everything I've ever been told about airline hiring, to include my own interview with Delta, and just doesn't really pass any sort of reason check. By this reasoning, they would deduct 50% of PIC time in a multi-crew airplane since it is presumed that the other pilot is "at the stick" every other leg. But, they do not. It's decision making that they are looking for in PIC time - and instrctor time is all about making decisions. Instructor time, being PIC by default, is the gold standard of flight time. It's more than just being the Captain. It's being a Capt, who also has to overcome the additional distractions of teaching, anticipating and managing errors, and not allowing them to cross a safe threshold.

Showcase your mil instructor time - the hiring dudes love it. In fact, if your a mil guy with 8+ years and no, or little, instructor time it will raise eyebrows. Why wasn't this guy ever allowed to instruct?

I'll give Rick the benefit of the doubt that he is confusing Instructor time in the sim building of an airline training center with instructor time we log in the military, which is in the jet and in command of the aircraft. But, if he is referring to IP time logged in the jet - he's simply wrong.