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This "when do you get actual work done" bugs me sometimes. It's true to some extent, but sometimes a bunch of engineers in a room together get a lot of work don
by anyfoo 4y ago
This "when do you get actual work done" bugs me sometimes. It's true to some extent, but sometimes a bunch of engineers in a room together get a lot of work done. Sometimes even a lot more than if they each did their own thing, come together, and discover that it doesn't fit together.
Not all meetings are like that, yeah, and there's a limit, but meetings not being "actual work" is not generally true.
Also, since pandemic times, I've had it a few times that people were circling via chat or email on a topic forever, and a quick 15 minute online meeting (independently of whether the camera was on) resolved it immediately.
- CSDude 4y agoI'm not saying you cannot do any work in meetings. But if the only empty space in your calendar is lunch time and 2 or 4 hours for a whole week, as a Software Engineer, there won't be much time to do get, I repeat, actual work, which is mostly programming & debugging done, at least for most junior level positions. When an enterprise gets large enough, even just regularly checking in with projects, program managers, executives, designers, product managers was %50 of my busy time for a week. And it was exhausting. Not everywhere would be like that, but that caused a serious burnout with me and I've quit.
- anyfoo 4y agoOk I understand what you mean now. If there are so many meetings, then all the "meaningful" meetings become meaningless, if there's no time to actually execute what was discussed.