Thinking about switching in house jobs from one bank to another. Current job is great for work life balance but no promotion prospects and pay is below market. New job offers a better title and better pay but work life balance is a bit of an unknown. What kind of questions would you pose to the new employer/team when trying to ascertain what work life balance awaits? Any tips of setting boundaries early on without inviting judgment? Need flexibility to pick up my kids from childcare every day…

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I’d ask straight up if there’s flexibility to be able to pick your kid up every day. No sense in guessing about what’s essentially your most important question.

Are they remote/hybrid? How have they shifted from pre-pandemic to now? What was the response from c-suite during the height of pandemic/WFH, and what is their tone now (are there rumors of RTO?)
Does everyone on the team work in a commuting distance to the office such that there is an expectation of being in the office all day every day?
Is there anyone (in your direct chain) that has an expectation of “face time” for rapport building!
How much autonomy do you have over your daily meeting load? Will you have freedom to determine (within reason) which meetings require your attendance? In person? Via phone/video?

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Try asking what an average day is like - I asked this in my interviews to get a sense of workload / variety of work but often people would immediately go into discussing work life balance / the hours they worked.

Of course, after you get an offer, you could always ask to speak with more people and then ask more explicitly about hours.

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