How is everyone in this community still coding so much? Just 4 years into my career my active coding has reduced to almost half.

how come?

So you got promoted to team lead or even project manager? Grats. But also: Learn to say no! There is more in life than the additional money of a managerial position.

@Oktokolo nop, I'm mid level.

@BugsBuggy: So what is mid level in your company?

@Oktokolo 2+ years of min exp but that's mostly for guys who start their career here.

For lateral switches, 3 is the norm.

By mid level, I mean an Engineer who independently handles a project, and if required can work along with a couple of juniors (0-3), do code reviews etc.

I have to code quite often.

But for example, next project that I'm going to take up is adding search functionality (ES) in one of our REST API Services that currently work on MySQL alone.

So, for the next sprint I will be analysing and freezing requirements, contracts, design and estimate, do PoC, plan for deployments etc.

@BugsBuggy: So you actually are coding and thinking about code (which i count to coding) most of the time?

@Oktokolo what do you mean by thinking about code?

@BugsBuggy: Analysing the problem, coming up with a solution, researching and learning... Well, the positive things generally associated with being a coder. ;)

Well, design and all is good. I like it much more than actual coding.

But then, meetings with dependent teams and them not agreeing, client on-boarding, helping juniors in cross team collaborations in their projects and making sure the solutions they come up with is aligned both with dependent team and our team, meetings on system health etc take a good chunk of my time which results in frequent context switches.