Not in my experience. At the last few companies I worked at, meetings were annoying for entirely different reasons, but not because of filibustering. People got

Not in my experience. At the last few companies I worked at, meetings were annoying for entirely different reasons, but not because of filibustering. People got in and out as quickly as possible. You occasionally met with someone who wouldn't answer a question straight, or make a statement in less than five paragraphs, but at this company it is the rule rather than the exception. The only difference I can point at to explain it is that I now work with mostly academics and scientists rather than software product people.