yup, 100% true. If you have not worked in such a big company (say more than 500 people), you can't imagine how much politics/communication/organisation/standard

yup, 100% true. If you have not worked in such a big company (say more than 500 people), you can't imagine how much politics/communication/organisation/standards/procedures are important both in term of, well, importance, and time you spend on it. In the company I worked, you had about 1 analyst for 2 devs and 1 PM for 10 persons. So more than one third of the team was never writing code. Add in the time spent in meetings, talks, testing, understanding and yeah, I'm sure about 50% of the time was spent not coding.