Comment by morkalork
1 day ago
>Everybody in a meeting should give input or they shouldn’t be in the meeting.
This is wierd and terrible, what does it mean, no interns and juniors get to attend engineering meetings? Tagging along to those meetings is how they learn and it's not expected that they have input at every one, sometimes it's just a question or two.
If you imagine a spectrum between a 20 person PowerPoint demonstration that takes an hour, and a 10 minute meeting with say Bezos when you’ll get your next 10 minutes in 90 days and you need him to get behind your project and unlock budget, most corporate meetings would do well to shift closer to Beezy. That’s the intent.
Another way to say it, in the 90s workplace studies showed an engineering IC’s job was roughly 35 hours of meetings a week. If you work 40, that leaves 5 hours for coding. If you could get someone back just 5 of those 35 hours, you’d have double the coding output per engineer.
Yes, it is weird and terrible, and it means that you'll be expected to voice your agreement to what the real decision makers say.
They’re talking in the context of C level meetings. Not many juniors there.
I must have been reading sideways, it came off like a blanket policy from top down to everyone
I think it could both be true, a decision made from top to bottom _and_ made in the context of someone who's in executive meetings all day.
At that point you might not be able to relate anymore to what a day of people looks like that are half a dozen levels down and have decades less work experience.