Noted Forced Ranking Enthusiast Deloitte Declares Forced Ranking Dead

The timing of this discussion is pretty good considering we have not one but two hot conversations happening in Open Items as we speak; one person was “forced to resign” from the Big 4 after just 6 months, while another person asks if anyone has been or knows anyone who has been coached out. You will see momentarily what this has to do with forced rankings but for now, let’s pull an old article out of the archive from Francine McKenna:

Promotion Watch ’14: EY Americas Admits 295 New Partners

Not to be outdone by PwC’s addition of 180 partners the other day, EY has internally announced the admission of 295 new partners, 170 new executive directors and 31 new directors. Dang, son, slow it down over there.

The email that went out to EYers was standard congratulations, we are so excited, exclamation point exclamation point blah blah: