I'm a dev manager at a mega corp. I spend about 60 - 75% of my day in meetings. I don't really mind the volume because when I was a developer I liked working w

I'm a dev manager at a mega corp. I spend about 60 - 75% of my day in meetings. I don't really mind the volume because when I was a developer I liked working with managers who tried to keep my calendar as open as possible and only bringing me into meetings when my opinions were needed. I try to emulate that now I am a manager and have a sizable staff of developers. I will typically take meetings that traditionally would have included a developer or two. I will only bring them in if it's obvious their input is needed or they specially asked to be more visible to the process. I'd say developers on my team average about 2 hours a week in scheduled meetings. There of course are times where breakouts need to happen to discuss some fine points of such and such thing but such things are part of the job too.