Whilst VA has their issues - they really ought to be commended for allowing all pilots to be able to access all positions within the Group (as the knock on affect of subsequential positions and the training requirements this puts on the Company are huge) . A pilot joining now could have quite the varied career at VA...
Meanwhile, over at the competitor whole floors of "practitioners" spend their dark days on denial of a career path, all in search of labor unit cost reductions.
HR practiced at the competitor is a dark art.