I completed my BCPL + CPL/IR upgrade at SFT from late '99 to early 2000. Very good instruction ( I had Rob Smalley for the BCPL and Norman Baldridge for the upgrade). As with ANY flight school there are too many students and you will get shafted occasionally but things accelerate as you get into each course. With regard to where I am now ( 1 year on)....
Frozen ATPL, Perf 'A', MCC, 1 IR renewal, 400+ hours, hundreds of letters & phonecalls and not a sniff - not 1 interview. I received no help or advice from SFT in finding work, but I didn't expect any. Looking at the FI route although I don't have a pot to piss in. Enough ramblings. Off to tell a few chief pilots what they're missing......