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> These six-figure reports are produced by underpaid kids in their twenties working 18 hours a day.

That's accurate, for the first draft. Similar to big legal firms - subsequent versions are signed-off and passed up (and if revisions request, down) the hierarchy, each stratum with its own billing rate(s).

Which makes me wonder when the hallucinations got added.

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Not where I used to work. Any "sign off" was some director making sure the letterhead looked right.

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> Not where I used to work

It can't have been at any of the big 4, because partners aren't skipping 4+ org-chart layers to look at draft documents written by early-career associates. I have no experience with body shops - if that's where you were.