Got a Big 4 offer for a role I was reached out to on LinkedIn. In the middle of the interview stage, I found another role I was interested in that is in a different practice than the role I was offered. Is it detrimental to ask for a realignment or to ask to explore that practice or better to accept and transfer internally down the line?

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Yes, if you ask about the other role, you will blow the offer. You are better off accepting and transferring later (note that in the B4 there are risks in doing this; if a practice hired you, they’re expecting you to work for them).

Recruiters recruit for their assigned divisions and their financial incentives is to fill their open requisitions (this may vary by firm). There is little incentive to help someone else fill their quotas. Go further and think how this looks? You just wasted this recruiter’s and your future colleagues’s time. It comes across as indecisive and flippant.

Bottom line: there is no upside.

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I really appreciate this honesty, thank you so much for sharing this perspective

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A problem is they’re probably expecting an answer on the offer shortly, and hiring timeline may not align with the other opening

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