I was a developer at a big corp (financial services industry) until leaving earlier this year. It steadily grew over four years from around one hour a week to f

I was a developer at a big corp (financial services industry) until leaving earlier this year. It steadily grew over four years from around one hour a week to five hours a week (~13%) of meetings. My first few weeks had a lot more meetings (trainings), and my last couple weeks had a lot more meetings (knowledge transfer). Because I became an expert in some areas, I was routinely invited to meetings to give my input (which further reinforced opinions). Furthermore, I realized a lot of non-technical people are not good about responding to emails. If I needed something from a product manager, chances were better that I could get it faster by setting up a 30 minute meeting for the following day. If I needed something from a senior engineer, email was best, of course. Honestly, given the role I had and the largish size of the company, I never felt like it was too many meetings.