QIS trading + switching desk

Does anyone know if this is a good place to be (JPM/GS)? seems like there's very limited scope to take risk, resulting in difficulties moving to buyside in the future, but on the bright side you get to pick whatever product you want to specialise in, which brings me onto the next question:

If one does land on a desk like that, and decides that it isn't the one, is switching to a desk (potentially even where you've already traded that desk's product) difficult?

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I guess it might be hard to jump to a desk at another firm that specializes in one product? But it should be pretty easy to transfer to an internal desk and move on from there “?

 
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