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Alrighttt let's talk about it - we all bitch about banking all the time

What do you hate the most about PE? 
I will start 
Maybe you guys have it better than me but does anyone hate being the most junior guy in PE and start turning comments again? I am working a PE firm (ignore the title) with a partner who spent the last 20 years as a banker ...so he still cares about the small formatting crap or making me 'chase' just cause he can - and trust me I am good at formatting but this guy is so anal about doing it 'his way'...when does it end? lol
Also, I hate how unproductive finance / IB / PE is....everything is so manual and I hate datarooms. I don't think we ever want to 'adopt' tech solutions to automate anything except capiq / bbg plugin I guess. Do you use anything at work that helps you boost your productivity or make you do less boring mundane crap?
 

 

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