In fairness, the ratio of "just write code" to everything you listed above changes quite drastically as your seniority increases. To be sure, there will always

In fairness, the ratio of "just write code" to everything you listed above changes quite drastically as your seniority increases. To be sure, there will always be some senior/staff/principal engineers who sit in a room by themselves and code all day without talking to anyone, but, typically, the more senior you get in an organization the more your job consists of things other than writing code. When you're a junior or a mid, however, writing code makes up the vast majority of your day.