Guidance/Advice on a Lateral move

Hello,

I guess I am invited to fly out to a fintech firm's home office to meet everyone, so I am quite confident an offer is coming shortly after that trip.

I wrapped up my first year in a MM Industrials Group, but my background well positions me for tech and fintech, hence the move. This firm wanted to start me out as first year again, and I am not all the way comfortable with it. The people whom I interviewed with said they did sacrifice a few years of their working experiences too, and it was worth it. When people try to sell the firm to you, I think they will try to do a good selling job. However, I am not super sold on it.

The firm is well known in its space and from speaking with senior bankers, there are definitely shortcuts to get promoted to VP, and such. But again, my hiccup is that they start me all over again - I think their thought process is I work in a different coverage group and they need to "train" me from the ground, but I am being in the same group as a person who just graduated and starts their first full time job. That is messing me up.

During this office visit, I will meet with their MD and other senior bankers and I will for sure bring this up. This sounds like a good opportunity, but if they do not sketch out a plan for me for a different promotion track, I guess I will not sit well with this opportunity.

If you have seen these situations at your bank or other banks, please share your thoughts. I have not heard about this a lot, and it seems a bit unfair.

Thank you in advance.