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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Looks like I have time still. [b]The question is how are they open to diversity hiring someone in mid 40s with good credentials and who can work without a break for childbearing etc.[/b] [/quote]

In my experience, they are not open at all. Not even a little bit. Like I would bet every dollar I have you would never make partner and Sr.Manager/Director is iffy.

Partners groom future partners and they like to do that with young people to mold them in their image. They don't even know how to handle a 40-something associate and don't view them as partner track in the least. A lot of them don't even view experienced hires as partner track and prefer their homegrowns that have spent their whole careers with the firm. The exception to a 40-something making partner would be someone who was a high level fed or something like a junior partner at a law firm who comes in with a big, fat book of potential clients and becomes a rainmaker.

I honestly can't imagine a less appealing white collar job than being a 40-something at the associate level at a Big4. Horrific hours, all the other associates are 22 and think you're a weirdo loser, partners your age who just don't know how to deal with a peer who is so low on the totem pole, etc. I always felt bad for these people, but they just seemed totally lost. I can't imagine opting into this if I didn't seriously need the money (not even that much) or had no other options. [/quote]

^^^^THIS.

I found those being groomed as future partners are among the most distasteful colleagues. Prioritize everything partners want, and leave everyone else hanging by either not coming through because they are too busy serving partners, or doing a super sh*tty job. Fake sincerity. Over-enthusiastic about all of the extracurricular stuff, when everyone else hates being around them. Those types are the future of the companies.  [/quote]

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