The author goes to far too many meetings. A manager with multiple teams should and will likely have team leads for each team. This should be a person who most

The author goes to far too many meetings. A manager with multiple teams should and will likely have team leads for each team. This should be a person who mostly codes, does some leadership for team as well. Manager shouldn't be micro managing being in daily scrums. Every other day is fine, alternating between teams. Why have a team lead at all? Working lunches are terrible idea as well. Eat lunch, don't pretend like you're paying attention to the totally coincidental "anti-racism webinar" that just so happened to be on your calendar that day and totally isn't a way to tout HR policies and virtuousness. Other meetings are quarterly meetings, so that's 1 day out of 90. Let's not pretend that's normal. Meetings with directors shouldn't be every day, EVER. Not commeinting on this anymore, other than to say that I'm blown away by how wasteful big companies are. After having been at a startup that blew up and went public, and then recently starting a company and being one of 5 engineers, its just obvious that big companies eventually accumulate a whole class of people who do nothing but talk all the time. Those people LOVE hiring other talkers who then hire more talkers who hire scrum masters to make up for the engineering teams getting bombarded by the talkers and so the hell continues.