Yeah, my (very frank and helpful!) internal career counselor told me, whatever the CEO and promotional materials from HR say, be prepared for moving between gro

Yeah, my (very frank and helpful!) internal career counselor told me, whatever the CEO and promotional materials from HR say, be prepared for moving between groups to be much harder than moving within one, there will be bad blood afterwards, especially with how uncertain hiring was due to covid (18 months ago). If I transferred across the company, that would fulfill that groups req, without guaranteeing that the group I left would get one (since a non-official hiring freeze was in place). When I quit that job I noticed they started hiring for my position like 4 months later, so it did take them a while to get a req.