From a technical point of view, they are not. Not by a long shot. Take my current job for example(which coincidentally is one I'm also leaving because of that):

From a technical point of view, they are not. Not by a long shot. Take my current job for example(which coincidentally is one I'm also leaving because of that): At one point we discovered that we spend more time in meetings than actually developing. We decided to cut on meetings and define "meeting-free days", which are 2 days a week. Did it work? No. The outcome is that the other 3 days are almost always back to back meetings from dawn till dusk. We still spend over 15 hours a week(often closer to 20) in bullshit meetings, discussing how something simple should be done. And in our standups we disguise those as "pair-coding sessions", which have noting to do with pair or coding, rather talking about abstract, ambiguous bullshit. And when release time comes, several people spend several days in a row, working 15-16 hours a day in order to catch up and actually do what should have been done from the start: KISS[1] [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS_principle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS_principle