I raised this in another thread, but how much collaboration does the typical software engineer need? It obviously varies by company (Pivotal being the extreme),

I raised this in another thread, but how much collaboration does the typical software engineer need? It obviously varies by company (Pivotal being the extreme), but in every company I have been in, there have been days where I have needed no substantial interaction with anyone else beyond maybe 5-10 Slack messages. Now, as a software engineer with a product manager, information mostly flows one way as well, except for pings back to indicate when work is complete. On teams where software engineers are more than implementers, I can see this mattering, but a lot of us are implementers, and the advantages of quiet time to work outweigh in person time spent for the minimal decision making we do. I could wipe out virtually every meeting I have beyond daily standup and very little would change.