[QUOTE=Unregistered;237583]Looks good bro - it’s likely that your PQE is what will draw up issues
Any good reason why you didn’t want to go for big 4 for your first 2 firms?

OP here. FCH was not something I expected to get, so I was content to just settle for any small-med size practice for the sake of simply getting called. I had no intention to stay in practice then. My RLT and TC firm is one of the 4, which I spent a year in thereafter as assoc.

While my current (Firm #04) and one of my previous mid-sized firm offered good work life balance, after spending time in these kind of outfits, part of me wants to move up the ladder. Pay is stagnant and there’s no prospect of making it partner, let alone SA.

One concern, however, was after signing contract with firm #04 (my current firm), a Big4 shortlisted me for interview, and by then, I had to decline by email, as I felt it would be wrong to do so having signed contract with my current firm. Would it be worth reapplying again? I'm a bit scared of being blacklisted.