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Spent 3 years under a PE group, and the "management by spreadsheet" was very real, and utterly corrosive. The constant squeeze meant eventually everyone started to realize the only people who were going to make any real money/have benefit was a handful of PE folks and their satellites; everyone else would be squeezed until breaking. Even where our CoC were good (as mine was), we knew the eventual pressure would make it all buckle, so get out before it breaks you.

Some of us chose to keep ourselves sane.