I'm a lead engineer for a market research data ETL & enrichment platform. Weekly, I have... * 1on1's with my developers and peers (30min per person, 4-6 per w

I'm a lead engineer for a market research data ETL & enrichment platform. Weekly, I have... * 1on1's with my developers and peers (30min per person, 4-6 per week) * Standup (2x 15 min) * Engineering leads meeting (1x 30min) * SRE catchup (1x 1hr) Other misc meetings... * Engineering leads kvetch (unstructured 1hr every 2wks, cut short if there's nothing on our minds) * My squad's retro (45min every 3wks) * My squad's grooming (1hr every 3wks) * Platform retro (multiple squads, 1hr every 1mo) * BI-Quarterly KPI/OKR Planning & Review (1-2hr every 1.5 months) * Skip-level manager meeting (1hr every 3mo) Wednesdays are my no-meetings-slash-deep-work day. I probably invest between 1-3 hours in pairing, by request. I clean my calendar aggressively. tl;dr ~5 hours of meetings per week