Poor technical experience as analyst

Second-year analyst at a US BB here. Haven't really touched any models at all during my first year. Feels like over 50% of my work is admin stuff (scheduling meetings, taking notes, handling printing, keeping track of process in Excel trackers, saving down documents, structuring folders etc.). The little work that isn't admin is often stuff like pulling comps, reading broker notes, pulling historical figures from financial reports, and creating slides. This is also the case for all other analysts in my class. Friends at EBs seem to get much more technical experience earlier, while at my bank and other BBs it seems that modelling is always handled by associates.

I think the lack of technical experience surprises a lot of people. Most people seem to think that you will be some modelling wizard doing a lot of super complex modelling when you enter banking. In reality, you are rather an extremely well-paid assistant to a large extent. Moreover, the modelling that is actually done at a later stage is rarely very complex. Often quite simple models where inputs are fully determined by the client and your job is just to put the numbers into an Excel template. Of course, that is a very different story if you are doing infra / FIG deals where modelling is often more complex.