Anyone work for Blackstone? Curious to learn more about culture and wlb

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Don’t work there, but know some about it. Culture and WLB are going to very a lot by group. Are you going for PE, special situations, real estate, etc. All in all, heard WLB is pretty terrible and culture is very formal/buttoned up

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