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I’ve had experience working on auctioned properties and handling empanelment and documentation with both public and private sector banks, HFCs, ARCs and insurance companies. In my previous role, I worked on recovery mandates involving distressed assets, bank empanelments, contracts, due diligence, CERSAI/MCA and revenue-record checks, and coordinated directly with bank stakeholders and external counsel. I also got exposure to matters involving SARFAESI, IBC, DRT/NCLT and auction processes.
And yet, despite having this experience, I’m currently struggling to find another job. I had to resign from my previous startup role while dealing with injury recovery, and the job search has honestly been BRUTAL, not to mention just like a tier-1 firm, I many times worked overtime even in a startup, my manager REFUSED to teach me ANY work, with lots of trial and error I had to figure out everything on my own, I was shouted at even when it was not my mistake because extreme politics and favoritism.
So while I obviously can’t tell you whether you should stay in Tier 1 or move in-house, I just wanted to say that the position you’re in is genuinely something many people, including me, would be grateful to have. It’s very easy to look at our own struggles and forget that the same position may be someone else’s goal.
I really hope things get better for you, whether that means figuring out how to make your current role work or eventually finding a path that suits you better. And please don’t equate struggling in one particular work environment with not being good at law altogether, pretty sure you have more knowledge in banking and finance than you give yourself credit for.