Just a note regarding meeting hate (that's a common topic in this thread.) (Something that this article should mention) People (managers) who advocate for mee

Just a note regarding meeting hate (that's a common topic in this thread.) (Something that this article should mention) People (managers) who advocate for meetings need to keep an eye out for: 1: People scheduling meetings as a form of group procrastination. 2: People scheduling meetings as a form of pontificating or having people listen to their ego trip. (These quite literally feel like someone "holding court.") 3: Confusing meetings for general collaboration on work. 2-3 people working together on a problem is not a meeting. > 3 people collaborating around a table should only happen long enough that everyone gets enough information to break apart into smaller groups so that they can get their job done. 4: Meeting overload: I think there is a "healthy target" of ~1 hour a day of meetings for an IC, slightly more for an engineering leader, and significantly more for a manager. Meetings become a problem when the ICs are pulled into more than an hour of meetings on a typical day, or an engineering lead being pulled into more meetings than they are comfortable with on a typical day. The managers need to shield them from too many meetings.