For what it's worth, the average experience level of new hires at AC in the past year has been about 5000 hrs. It sure is easy to focus on the dozen or so (out of 250) that may have had considerably less than that...word sure does get around of course.
In any case on my recent new hire course the experience level ranged from 4000-8000 hrs and was a broad crossection of large turboprop, corporate jet, helo, military, and transport experience.