Consulting companies and other professional

[aditya8062]

Consulting companies and other professional services groups, law firms, and research divisions often have informal talent powerhouses where senior partners strive to identify the best partners junior to them and the best junior partners compete for the projects that they find most rewarding.

A) where senior partners strive to identify the best partners junior to them and the best junior partners compete for the projects that they find most rewarding.
B) in which senior partners strive and identify the best junior partners and the best junior partners compete for the projects that they find most rewarding.
C) where senior partners strive to identify the best junior partners and the best junior partners compete for the most rewarding projects.
D) that enable senior partners to strive and identify the best junior partners and the best junior partners compete for the most rewarding projects.
E) in which senior partners strive to identify the best junior partners and the best junior partners compete for the most rewarding projects.

[Lifetron]

IMO C

OA ?

[GMATGuruNY]

Consulting companies and other professional services groups, law firms, and research divisions often have informal talent powerhouses where senior partners strive to identify the best partners junior to them and the best junior partners compete for the projects that they find most rewarding.

A) where senior partners strive to identify the best partners junior to them and the best junior partners compete for the projects that they find most rewarding.
B) in which senior partners strive and identify the best junior partners and the best junior partners compete for the projects that they find most rewarding.
C) where senior partners strive to identify the best junior partners and the best junior partners compete for the most rewarding projects.
D) that enable senior partners to strive and identify the best junior partners and the best junior partners compete for the most rewarding projects.
E) in which senior partners strive to identify the best junior partners and the best junior partners compete for the most rewarding projects.

Here, powerhouse means an organization of great importance.
In A and C, where cannot serve to refer to an organization; where can serve to refer only to a PHYSICAL LOCATION.
Eliminate A and C.

In B and D, strive AND identify is unidiomatic. The correct idiom is X strives TO + VERB.
Eliminate B and D.

The correct answer is E.