> The "5 minute" disruption ends up with the team losing half a day of 'real' work.
This has never been my experience across a decade of being an SDE — and this sort of hyperbole undermines your case.
> Tech leads seem to have it worst as they're expected to communicate but also write code.
Your numbers don’t align with (eg) Amazon’s definition of SDE, where SDE1s are expected to spend 4 hours a day coding (50% of time) and SDE3 (tech lead) only 2 hours a day (25% of time).
They literally adjust their expectations to account for the increase in meetings.
This has never been my experience across a decade of being an SDE — and this sort of hyperbole undermines your case.
> Tech leads seem to have it worst as they're expected to communicate but also write code.
Your numbers don’t align with (eg) Amazon’s definition of SDE, where SDE1s are expected to spend 4 hours a day coding (50% of time) and SDE3 (tech lead) only 2 hours a day (25% of time).
They literally adjust their expectations to account for the increase in meetings.