Are you a junior engineer? Or someone without a lot of years under your belt? That's probably why. A lot of these discussions don't really pertain to you, and

Are you a junior engineer? Or someone without a lot of years under your belt? That's probably why. A lot of these discussions don't really pertain to you, and that's okay. Those types of meetings are more for your PMs and your high level staff engineers to understand a project more holistically. To a new engineer, it's 100% fluff they don't care about. They'll make more sense in time, but don't worry about it for now. You'll learn more the business and grow in responsibilities and then those meetings will both make more sense and have more interest.