Flight hours and age are not the only indicator for experience.
It greatly depends on
- What equipment are the hours flown on.
- How much training has been given to the pilot, sim and real time.
- What are the sop's of the companies. Are they the a$$ covering as much
automatics as possible and AP off at minimum, or something more hands on
- How many hours on what seat
8000 hours don't seem few, but not many either. Give it for example 5000 as FO, thereof 4000 on a RJ, then 1500 on a RJ again as Captain, suddenly it doesn't look bright.
Or give it a ME career for locals, 6000h as long range FO with 1 landing every 20 days, then a guaranteed upgrade to long range again, the cycle experience is very dim.
Going along with all your age and flight hours, you need cycles and exposure to all the different environments and experience on similar types of airframe if you want to be called "experienced".
You also need a adequate syllabus of training and retraining within the company (rare these days where the only worship is for the doe).
Incident reports rarely give us the total information.