The A320 training and culture is a throwback to Ansett 1980 - lots of little 'local' SOPs and procedures that aren't actually applicable to the current variant of the aircraft operated by the carrier.
Airbus would have a field day if they conducted an audit.
I thought Ansett Airbus training was excellent. Accidentally ahead of its time.
I've worked for three Airbus operators, with seven different sets of SOPs, because Airbus is so bloody hopeless I don't know how they haven't gotten away with an audit.
Also, command pass rate at Ansett was in the high 90%'s. I work for a lunatic outfit now in Hong Kong where we had 0% for awhile and funnily enough, Ansett had a better flying/ airmanship standard in my opinion.