As a principal engineer at a 3k employee company, my amount of coding has shifted down to around <30%, but it comes in tides. Last week was zero coding, but the

As a principal engineer at a 3k employee company, my amount of coding has shifted down to around <30%, but it comes in tides. Last week was zero coding, but the two weeks prior, I had fun coding 6 hours a day. But generally, I'm at the point where two hours of coding is about all I can hope for. When I was senior at a 500 person company, I could spend half the day or less in meetings, but not every day. Maybe 70% coding. When I was at more of a start up and midlevel, my meetings tended to be 1hr-2hr or less a day, several days only with scrum. When not coding/testing/code-reviewing, it is meetings, notes, documents, communications, driving alignment, finding requirements, digging into data, ...