I'm an analyst at EY and I couldn't help but notice the high number of diverse senior managers on the sap side (specially lot if Indians), and 99% of partners are white male. Im not one to make ...

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What is there really to say here? That becoming Partner also requires you to be a part of the Old Boys Club? Everyone knows that. You gotta pay to play. And if the firm can't get behind your personal brand and can't sell what you're offering, you won't make it. Period.

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Lol look at the CEO of Microsoft, Deloitte, Google. You think smart Indian folks really have a hard time making partner at a consulting firm? Doubt it. They probably don't want to deal with the BS. And lmao @ac1 you're an idiot.

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Fast forward 10 years: Why are 90% all the partners brown?

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Partner is all about selling work. Indian partners are going to have a harder time selling work to white CEOs

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I see Indian people get passed over for promotion and excluded from convos a lot and people write it off as a communications issue. Prejudice is real.

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love it when analysts come out the gate swinging on FB

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Again im new to all this - but literally entered a town hall where almost every single SM was brown and overall the room was full of brown people (with some other races too) and all the partners in the practice standing in front of the room were white male. I don't think this can be solely due to consulting being new or ey being new or some other reasons mentioned here. And this was an ey related post - dunno about others.

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Just because there are tons of Indians doesn't mean the place is "diverse"

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My partner is Indian. Also I think the immigration of highly skilled Indians started fairly recently. It takes 15+ years to be partners and there weren't that many Indians back then.

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@D1 what's that supposed to mean?

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Yeah a ton of my friends from my masters program were Indian and many joined Deloitte. 1 or 2 will make partner for sure.

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Sorry but the truth sure is that a lot of indians are stuck in consulting firms due to visa issues meaning companies hiring h1bs and sponsoring GCs are hard to find, add to that indian men have wives who are willing to compromise for this shit lifestyle. If the regulations with visas changed , the attrition would peak.

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So many Indian partners. And now with first gens coming of age we will have even more! 🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳

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Not true acc1, OP indian SMs are increasingly becoming PPDs but i dont jnow if its a good thing

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I agree with OP, but I think there's an important caveat to bear in mind... the ability for talent to stay in country with visas has a large part of this equation. There's also causality with the newness of the consulting practice. Just food for thought.

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Thats because are eager to pelase and constantly in operate mode , not in question, challenge and i am the boss mode

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There are plenty of Indian/"brown" partners, especially on the tech side. Though, there are many industries and offerings where it is still a good ol' boys club... That being said, the biggest challenge is with attracting, promoting, and keeping African Americans and Hispanic Americans - men and women. There's no way someone can say with a serious face that our businesses do not struggle with race.

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Most of it is a pipeline problem - it takes X number of years to become partner. There have only been Y years since firms started paying attention to diversity. Y is still > X. Give it some time and continued pressure, and you will see a shift.

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Insinuations but the contrast struck me as interesting. Thoughts ?

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Yea it's pretty f'ed up.

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