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You’re not going to know the upsides of the people and culture until you’re with your new team. You could easily get placed with a shitty M/SM at your new firm

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You may not like your particular group and just need to leave especially if it is niche like your career is at one or two entities and you know your team for now until forever, or a niche industry like utilities.

You may not have opportunity in a market but you want to stay or move to — eg you want to move to be closer to fam or there are already 3 directors in that region doing what you do so you need to move or switch firms and compete head on head against your old buddies.

One firm may genuinely invest more than another in an area important to you or your career.

A partner group is or is not retiring soon making way for new partners in that area with portfolios to hand over.

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What kind of company? If it's a smaller one, expect a decrease in salary. But you might get a slight improvement in WLB.

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