Is PE recruiting supposed to be this much harder than it was for IB?

I've struck out of a number of PE processes at this point, and I can make it to the case studies but often that's where I end up failing. For IB recruiting I studied for like a month and with some networking got a good offer pretty easily. But this feels more difficult especially given I am working and can't just prepare for interviews a a full time job like I did when I was recruiting for IB

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