I've read that top performers can be promoted from BA to EM after 3 years. How rare is this and what happens if you don't get promoted? Can you be promoted to Associate instead if you're good but not yet EM material?
Say you get a firm sponsored MBA after 3 years as a BA because you didn't make EM...do you come back as an Associate at the same level as someone who was only a BA for two years before getting an MBA?