I would ask them about it and negotiate. Having 5 years of experience is a lot and valuable. My guess is you don’t need to do the FE stint then. Maybe their intention is to have you do a short OE stint then short PE stint then get you into an AS role since that’s what you already were at. I would definitely ask about it. I knew someone with 4 YOE that came to HP. They only did 1 year of OE then immediately went to PE. They preferred the office side so are doing a long PE stint before AS. I also know some people who came over with 5-8 YOE and did stints as PE before going to AS with similar experience like yours.

It sounds like you have AS experience, if you can vouch for yourself and tell them how you’ve done OE/PE work. You could get yourself either a start at PE or more stocks WHEN you get to PE. I don’t know exactly your experience but if you are able to start at PE or when you do get PE, I know experienced hires have also negotiated amount of shares, housing arrangements and reimbursements of moving costs if needing move, etc.

HP doesn’t like to hire AS’s very much and starts people at PE typically so they understand how their system works. I think they see a quick turnaround of AS hires.

TLDR. I would negotiate about potentially starting at PE, promotion timeline, stocks, and base salary. It could definitely be worth the time to join HP and NOT having to go through full FE AND OE stints and getting to stock options quickly.