{
  "name": "Who Gets In? Findings Bank",
  "updated": "2026-09-27",
  "purpose": "Journalist- and researcher-ready findings derived only from defined reviewed subsets. These are not market prevalence estimates.",
  "findings": [
    {
      "id": "WGI-FIND-001",
      "title": "Explicit AI rules draw a boundary around candidate-owned work",
      "denominator": 8,
      "numerator": 8,
      "institutions": [
        "McKinsey & Company",
        "UBS",
        "PwC UK",
        "Clifford Chance UK",
        "Deloitte UK",
        "HSBC",
        "BCG",
        "A&O Shearman UK"
      ],
      "finding": "All eight institutions in the reviewed AI-policy subset publish an explicit boundary or control around candidate or employer AI use in recruitment. Seven of the eight explicitly protect at least one assessment or interview context through an AI restriction or candidate-owned-performance requirement; BCG is not included in that stage-specific numerator because the reviewed guidance does not establish a blanket live-assessment prohibition.",
      "scope": "Defined official-source AI-policy subset reviewed through 13 September 2026",
      "evidence": [
        "SIG-108",
        "SIG-109",
        "SIG-111",
        "SIG-112",
        "SIG-113",
        "SIG-118",
        "SIG-120",
        "SIG-172",
        "SIG-173",
        "SIG-174",
        "SIG-177",
        "SIG-178",
        "SIG-180",
        "SIG-181",
        "SIG-182",
        "SIG-183"
      ],
      "prevalence_warning": "Do not generalise 8/8, or the stage-specific 7/8 result, to all selective employers. The seven protected-stage policies must not be reported as seven blanket AI bans. Published rules do not establish actual enforcement or hiring effects.",
      "updated": "2026-09-19",
      "supporting_sources": [
        {
          "evidence_id": "WGI-AI-REVIEW-CC-20260919",
          "institution": "Clifford Chance",
          "market": "United Kingdom",
          "programme_or_route": "London early careers: Watson Glaser",
          "observation": "The official How we hire page expressly prohibits AI use in the Watson Glaser test. This supports a named-stage restriction, not an inference about every assessment.",
          "observed": "2026-09-19",
          "source_url": "https://jobs.cliffordchance.com/how-we-hire-london"
        },
        {
          "evidence_id": "WGI-AI-REVIEW-AOS-20260919",
          "institution": "A&O Shearman",
          "market": "Global candidate charter; applied here to UK comparison",
          "programme_or_route": "Applications and assessments",
          "observation": "The candidate charter asks that applications and assessments reflect the candidate's own thinking, experience and abilities. This is a candidate-owned-performance requirement, not a blanket AI ban.",
          "observed": "2026-09-19",
          "source_url": "https://careers.aoshearman.com/en/candidate-charter"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "WGI-FIND-002",
      "title": "Human judgement remains visible after digital selection stages",
      "denominator": 7,
      "numerator": 7,
      "institutions": [
        "McKinsey & Company",
        "UBS",
        "PwC UK",
        "Deloitte UK",
        "HSBC",
        "BCG",
        "A&O Shearman UK"
      ],
      "finding": "All seven institutions in the reviewed subset with explicit post-digital or hiring-decision evidence retain stated human judgement, human review, a live assessor interview or an assessment centre/Super Day rather than delegating the final decision to AI.",
      "scope": "Defined official-source human-review subset reviewed through 13 September 2026",
      "evidence": [
        "SIG-110",
        "SIG-115",
        "SIG-117",
        "SIG-175",
        "SIG-179",
        "SIG-181",
        "SIG-183",
        "SIG-186"
      ],
      "prevalence_warning": "This describes the reviewed subset only; it is not a prevalence estimate for elite employers."
    },
    {
      "id": "WGI-FIND-003",
      "title": "The same employer can run materially different selection architecture by market",
      "denominator": 3,
      "numerator": 3,
      "institutions": [
        "PwC",
        "Clifford Chance",
        "BlackRock"
      ],
      "finding": "Each of the three same-employer multi-market comparisons reviewed contains a material geography-specific difference in published selection architecture, timing or route design.",
      "scope": "Defined multi-market comparison subset reviewed 12 September 2026",
      "prevalence_warning": "Not a claim that every multinational employer varies by geography."
    },
    {
      "id": "WGI-FIND-004",
      "title": "A single BlackRock programme gives London and GCC candidates different application runways",
      "denominator": 1,
      "numerator": 1,
      "institutions": [
        "BlackRock"
      ],
      "finding": "BlackRock's 2027 EMEA Full-Time Analyst programme publishes a 30 September 2026 deadline for London, a 30 October 2026 deadline for Edinburgh and a 31 January 2027 deadline for Abu Dhabi, Kuwait and Riyadh, while stating that applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.",
      "scope": "One directly comparable current EMEA Full-Time Analyst programme, official page rechecked 27 September 2026",
      "source": "https://careers.blackrock.com/job/london/2027-full-time-analyst-program-emea/45831/97150826656",
      "prevalence_warning": "This is a programme-specific cross-market observation, not evidence that all BlackRock or elite-employer programmes use different regional deadlines.",
      "status": "VERIFIED FINDING",
      "evidence": [
        "SIG-126",
        "SIG-127"
      ],
      "updated": "2026-09-27"
    }
  ],
  "citation_rule": "Any public use must retain denominator, reviewed subset, date and prevalence warning.",
  "canonical_dataset": "https://whogetsin.com/",
  "methodology": "https://whogetsin.com/methodology"
}