I'm not sure your definition of "all the time" matches anyone else in the industry, quite frankly. At the architect/staff level I'm lucky if I can only spend ha

I'm not sure your definition of "all the time" matches anyone else in the industry, quite frankly. At the architect/staff level I'm lucky if I can only spend half my time on the phone or in some sort of meeting (includes the ad hoc group chat where we're discussing something via our internal equivalent of Slack). I get maybe 5-10 hours a week of coding, and it's usually either something extremely challenging that someone else has already spent weeks hacking on, or a super basic bug I grab to keep myself sane and in touch with the nitty gritty code stuff. An hour a day is junior dev level meeting load at almost every place I've ever worked. Seniors are 2-3, arch/staff/principal 4-6 and managers all day long (all averaged over a couple weeks or so it obviously ebbs and flows).