When you attended the interview and asked the question what did they say? this is a normal question to ask a panel, you can't make a career decision based on pprune feedback, however, remember with these airlines your seniority will be based on your time served with the company taking into account your applicable experience on their aircraft types, there is no queue jumping. In short plan on 4 plus years based on ALL the feedback here Qatar or Emirates are both sand pits so I guess its the lesser of two evils you base your decision on..