riantsoa

Re:Ask HN: Number of Meetings per Week? on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @03:41PM (#26571975)

From what I've noticed it is a problem across the orgs. But if my team and myself can at least find a solution to avoid this overdose of meetings it would be great! I've tried to implement asynchronous communication but right now it is a half-failure (90% of things are dealt with meetings...)

So thank you for the video I will check it out :)

Re:Ask HN: Number of Meetings per Week? on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @03:37PM (#26571949)

Great question and I should have been more precise. I joined the company in October, so yes at the beginning it makes sense to have a lot of meetings to get onboarded.

I used to work in a company where asynchronous communication were heavily used. Here it's the opposite.

I started to discuss with my manager but unfortunately he seems to have not enough power to change the situation. It seems it is a cultural thing in the company...

Ask HN: Number of Meetings per Week?

Posted by riantsoa on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @02:21PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Hello HN!I joined a company where meetings can take a lot of my calendar time. I'm working as a software engineer. To give you more context, I can spend between 15h to 25h in meetings. I feel a little bit frustrated as most of them are useless (weekly update / weekly sync / non-prepared meetings / non-relevant meetings). I'm a little bit afraid to decline them. Am I the only one in this...

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