> an engineer who’s expected to attend all the meetings and also be able to turn around designs and code is just not going to be as effective
Then maybe they are having too much asked of them. Or perhaps the meetings are actually more important than the coding tasks and that is why they get priority.
People need to learn how to delegate and how to let go. There is only so much time in a day. Either you delegate production tasks to someone else, or you let go of control and let people make decisions in meetings without your input. Both are valid responses to time pressure, and usually you need a mix of the two.
> an engineer who’s expected to attend all the meetings and also be able to turn around designs and code is just not going to be as effective
Then maybe they are having too much asked of them. Or perhaps the meetings are actually more important than the coding tasks and that is why they get priority.
People need to learn how to delegate and how to let go. There is only so much time in a day. Either you delegate production tasks to someone else, or you let go of control and let people make decisions in meetings without your input. Both are valid responses to time pressure, and usually you need a mix of the two.