Do your Junior Associates do any work?

Not looking for someone to come on here and spread around the Kool-Aid that an associate's job is just to review and manage stuff. I want to know from people who are obviously part of different teams, groups, banks etc, do your junior associates (newly promoted, one year onto the job, excluding new MBAs) actually do any work? Seems like on live deals, pitches, bakeoffs there is a lot to be done, and as an analyst I could use them rolling their sleeves up to knock out a few slides. At the very least give exact direction so I don't spin my wheels.

Seems like all my Jr Aso does is check if the comments given by VP or higher have been turned. Never in the excel / ppt, nor ideating slides or pulling reference materials to get somewhere.

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