The majority of capts in my company were either sponsored cadets or ex-mil. Very, very few are ex-instructors. Furthermore, the majority of our TRIs/TREs are ex-cadets and, on my particular fleet, our Training Standard Captains are ex-cadets so I think the broad-brush statements like:
You will find that the majority of the Captains you are going to share the flight deck with will also come from similair backgrounds, as do the guys that interview you.
can be extremely misleading.
Furthermore
It may go some way to explain why people have opinions on low hour cadets handling an 80 ton aircraft with very limited aviation backgrounds. Limited or no real experience of real world conditions,
doesn't really hold much water since this applies to many of the F/Os in BA and our passenger figures are (amazingly I admit) very good.
And finally, before anyone suggests I have some axe to grind, I built time on SEPs before getting a job on TPs then moving to jets.