When I had 200 hours, I would not have turned down an airline job. I would also have understood I had no idea what I was doing.
I find it slightly odd that you should say that, I was always under the impression that in the days of most FOs being sponsored you tended to get a lot more low houred pilots in the RHS of jets. Major carriers like British Airways always used to take a large intake of pilots straight out of flight school.