[ddelt]

I came here to respond to your #1 and tell you I worked in that position, and you are 100% spot-on. I chose to do more and grow/learn, and obviously there were times when you had full weeks and overtime, but by and large, I’d say 50% of people on my team were phoning it in and only putting in 2-3 hours per day. The rest was team meetings, corporate meetings, lunch hour, miscellaneous slack chatter, etc

[sokoloff]

It sounds like OP doesn’t want their day wasted with the extra 5 hours of non-coding work though (what you call “the rest”, they want to be free from, at least as I read the original).

[gryn]

yes, finding a job where not much real work is done is easy. find one where there's also not much busy work too is much much harder.