Discussion on: How many meetings do you have per week?

[Zikitel22]

meetings
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This is sad reality but it is natural.
The more you rise the ladder the less you code and more you discuss ideas/architecture/how things should work. Over the time you manage more teams that have more people involved which means more time to synchronize and get everybody on board -> more meetings.

[Ben Halpern]

What advice would you give someone who wants to manage their career in a direction that limits meetings — even if it means giving up on title and salary opportunities to some extent?

[Zikitel22]

From the top of my head

• Early stage startups - how many meetings do you need to sync 3-4 people given they are mostly seniors :)
• Being part of "innovation department" - never experienced it myself but from what i heard this is almost no meeting environment
• Lone wolf freelancer/consultant - well you have meetings with clients but i doubt that they happen more than once per week