Associate to VP promotion timeline
On average, how many years do you work as an associate before getting promoted to VP? I’m mostly wondering about EBs.
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Most places you are an associate for 3 years but I’m curious to hear if anywhere promotes after 2.
3 years (ASO1-ASO3)… however, there are exceptions where promo happens in 2 years for purposes of top talent retention.
Maybe more like 4 or 3.5 years now with A2A? From ASO 0 - ASO 3?
3.5 years out of MBA. Stub year and three full years
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